Feature History - Soviet-Afghan War

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[@FeatureHistory]

Apologies to anyone put off by the sponsor in this video. It was a new thing for me so I was still testing the waters, but I am going to use your criticisms in future if/when another video is sponsored.

[@tiscotisa9731]

Feature History Should put it at the end. Also, do one on the Peru-Bolivian war, so we can see a war bescause of bird shit.

[@derickgabrillo1579]

Feature History don't worry about it. I'm assuming it takes time and money to make you're videos(which are of great quality). It should be fair for us non-patreon peasants.

[@artman40]

Usually a shorter plug is more effective.

[@JonMow]

using guns to push people toward "progressivism" is not a good idea.it's a right idea but not a good one.supply nut heads people with weapons to fight someone you don't like is also stupid.a country fate should be decided by its own people

[@xBulbaneerx]

I think the only thing i could point out that i didn't like about the insertion of that add was that you put it as a placeholder as part of your presentation. I know this comparisson is somehwat blown out of proportion, but as a part of the documentation to point to a part and say "this part can be explained by the [INSERT PAID SERVICE HERE]", and then not talk about it, fells like you are (tecnically) a putting small part of it behind a pay-wall and something is compromised for the add. I love your videos because they summarize the most important aspects from a scenario in an easy-to-follow fashion, show both parties actions and views from a neutral standpoint. I think you could use that to your advantage though and point to things like The Great Courses Plus whenever they have something that could understood better when explained in detail, while STILL keeping a short summary in the doku.

[@hmoobmeeka]

If you're anti communist during the cold war, you received aid from the us, it doesn't matter if you're a terrorist or a dictator

[@DemonDragonGD]

One man's enemy is another man's friend.

[@gjesus051]

@@DemonDragonGD Until that friend backstabs you for trusting him too much

[@DemonDragonGD]

@@gjesus051 Who said I trust him.

[@arizonanrhodesian5313]

Yeah,right. Look at Rhodesia. They were fight commies but got vilified because they declared independence from Britian and we loaded down with UN sanctions.

[@DemonDragonGD]

@@arizonanrhodesian5313 Contries are how only powerful by 4 things. 1. Productivity 2. Can manufacturers 3. Military 4.How much gold they have (saved value)

[@Sean-ce1hu]

You forgot the part where John Rambo rescued his imprisoned friend.

[@izatrahman4108]

As I'm an Afghan, these points which you mentioned are mostly wrong. The cold War was completely planned by America and Russia. America successfully did how to bring Russia to Afghanistan, and after how American can come to Afghanistan. It was completely planned by America, let me tell you something, why did you destroyed Afghanistan for one beneladin, and that was also living in your sons land Pakistan but for killing him you killed many afghans. Afghans are not a terrorists you are the one, and you only made taliban and AL qiadah and daish, you and Pakistan are the one who support and giving guns to taliban. Who killed Dr najibullah, CIA, KGB, ISI, SNN and other killed najibullah, inshallah we will take revenge of Shaheed Dr najib Ullah.

[@homersimpson6585]

Izat rahman he wrote a joke chill

[@PeenileCansir]

That was the longest insult ever..... WTF is wrong with you.

[@hugofernandez4459]

And then a gigantic biped robot started to walk around trying to kill rambo

[@valentinamedojevic8512]

@@izatrahman4108 they got internet in Afghanistan

[@TheSeeker008]

“Afghan people always have their hands on each other’s throats but when a foreign power invades their land they join hands and destroy the invaders” This was a quote by a British general when they tried to invade Afghanistan back in the day with muskets

[@hamzashinwary4215]

Truly, I know because I myself am by ethnicity; a Pashtun. (Which make up majority of those fiercely independent people you hear about in Afghanistan and Pakistan). An Afghan would rather burn his wife and house down than give them to his brother.

[@pixiethecanary7666]

@@hamzashinwary4215 im ethnically tajik

[@Mu5tyLaghmani]

@@pixiethecanary7666 Whats the history of Tajiks at least the world knows Pashtun history and Pashtun empires.

[@Mu5tyLaghmani]

@Bink* That doesn't answer my question, if it was Khorasan, was it led my Tajik ruler or Tajik emperor. As for Pashtuns in 3rd century, there is recorded history of Pashtun in a non Pashtun historian book, similarly is there an unbaise history book that talks about tajik history, I will be looking forward to know this.

[@Omares112]

Punjabi’s are more mightier and tougher than any ethnic group

[@Gerbs1913]

2:38 Communist Afghanistan: "We need a new flag." Soviets: "Borrow ours but change it so people don't think it's a copy."

[@timurtimur53]

Western countries and theirs puppet states like Turkey and Saudi Arabians makes chaos in Iraq Libya Syria Afghanistan Yugoslavia Egypt Yemen Somalia and so on .

[@sufimuslimlion4114]

@@timurtimur53 Dude shut up.

[@somerandomdude5638]

@@timurtimur53 Most of those countries were already in turmoil before the US got involved.

[@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts]

Communist (insert country here) "we need a new flag" Soviet flags: "allow us to introduce ourselves"

[@hafizullahamin7671]

but look at 4:44. They got rid of their amazing flag, and me!

[@papermind4010]

America: we have to stop Communism USSR: we have to stop Islamic extremism America: we have to stop Communism USSR: America: we have to stop Islamic extremism

[@MoistMayoMonster]

PaperMind true doe

[@irshadtarsoo7734]

Most of the muslims fighting against the ussr were normal muslims who didn't want to live under ussr oppression, the ussr banned islam and muslims who wanted to practice their religion were horribly persecuted(especially in muslim majority areas like central asia), ussr then wanted to invade Afghanistan which would place more muslims in danger, so the muslims had to fight, it was not islamic extremism like isis or AQ that wants to unjustly rule the world , it was a defensive fight against oppression and injustice

[@muhammadrushdimdsaad6820]

@@irshadtarsoo7734 the christian orthodox too i think oppressed by the ussr..but now russia is a christian orthodox country..not a communist

[@zaka2]

@@irshadtarsoo7734 turned so bad though

[@Garviel_Loken.]

@@irshadtarsoo7734 In USSR was freedom to believe in whatever you want as long as you don't force others to believe in it. And all the information about persecution of anyone for religion is a total fake

[@shawnm3626]

don't forget the Soviets also had to deal with snake running around messing with there operations at the time

[@kanavkapoor3055]

Yeah, being Stunned and Fultoned to an oil rig must be annoying.

[@darknation6174]

I expected the comment. I wasnt disappointed.

[@Mitchery]

Kanav Kapoor Hahaha nice reference LoL

[@neonknight-1522]

It was snake who was responsible for all them helicopters dropping like flies'

[@haniffxii6299]

Yeah And the snake dont bite taliban only american

[@waffle-waffle5416]

To sum it up: How the Soviet and the US trapped themselves in an unending cycle of 'shooting themselves on the foot'

[@BlackEmeraldGroup]

You didnt mention who Bin laden was trained by the lovely CIA..and his armies was all supplied weapons to fight the soviets.

[@dadoogie]

Or the american's named one of the space shuttles after the fighters. Or that Hollywood even romanticized their shit in that bond film and even rambo.

[@Calvin_Coolage]

@@dadoogie The hell are you on about with the Space Shuttle thing?

[@Calvin_Coolage]

@@dadoogie I see. Very odd, but understandable given the political situation. Anyone who stood up to commies was our friend, as we'd soom come to realize isn't always true.

[@dadoogie]

@@Calvin_Coolage Yeah, iit was just black emerald's post reminded me that it wasn't just an effort by the CIA and military to bolster the muhajadeen, it was also going on with civilians in the movies etc.

[@Calvin_Coolage]

@@dadoogie I get it, yeah. Very interesting time in history.

[@gavinattalahadiyan325]

Afghanistan: Graveyard of Empires.

[@kananmas4330]

Better say the western empiers

[@sidthekid7043]

Better say an absolute shithole that thinks too much about itself

[@flipmanlet8982]

Don't forget Vietnam

[@TheDevilHydraProds2002]

macedon reference isn't it...

[@rolandshark2741]

@@harrycheng9348 Mostly its own people

[@FedotDaNeTod]

1 Brezhnew couldn't decide anything he was very sick at the moment. It was rather Politbureau descision. 2 it's not Red Army, but Soviet Army. It was called Red Army till 1946, then name being changed to Soviet Army.

[@daveybernard1056]

noooooo, we needed it to still be called the Red Army

[@ChristianVBlue3]

Red Army sounds cooler

[@user-gb6xz3nk6i]

😂 the first time I came across this word “Red Army” as a child I always thought they were all draped in red uniforms

[@mr.laughington5740]

But the west claims still consider the Soviet army the Red army until the cold war.

[@ggsay1687]

@Burleon to be precise it used to be called Workers and Peasants Red Army until it changed to Soviet Army.

[@sevatar5762]

From what I remember reading the Soviet Union actually wanted nothing to do with afghanistan. But after the communist coup they felt obliged to assist a newly declared communist country that was directly on the soviet border. I remember reading something like when the russian diplomats begrudgingly turned up to their first meeting with the new afghan communist government they were embarrassed by how ridiculously over the top the afghans were being. Talking In long political rants like marxists of the 30s and 40s. Haven’t read it in sveral years but it was from the book Afgantsy by Rodric Braithwaite.

[@OfficialSilverMoon]

That's actually fake propaganda as Rodric Braithwaite was a british diplomat and foreign spy.

[@da_poopoo_dealer3152]

@@OfficialSilverMoon maybe, but it could be his genuine account of things separate from his spy life, and it shouldnt be ignored and cast aside as lie, even if it is, it should be taken into account

[@StreetDrilla]

Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89 That is exactly how i imagined the Khalq Faction '78 communists of Afghanistan to be like. Only under the pressure of other eastern bloc nations that soviet union had accepted the new government. These new guys were extreme as hell, they are rumored to have planned for 100% literacy in afghanistan.

[@JJerry-mh1mp]

From what i've learned, the soviets didn’t really have that sort of military interest in Afghanistan in 1980-1988 until they found out about operation cyclone which was the code name for a CIA program to arm and finance the Afghan Mujahideen in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992, prior to and during the military intervention by the USSR support of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. The mujahideen, who inspired and formed the Taliban and even Al-qaeda given that Bin Laden was one of the mujahideen fighters, were also supported by Britain's MI6, who conducted their own separate covert actions. The program leaned heavily towards supporting militant Islamic groups, including groups with jihadist ties, that were favored by the regime of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq in neighboring Pakistan, rather than other, less ideological Afghan resistance groups that had also been fighting the Soviet-oriented Democratic Republic of Afghanistan administration since before the Soviet intervention. This was due to the 1979 U.S. embassy attack in Iran and the overthrowing of the U.S. back shah put back from 1953 to 1979 after the British and U.S. back coup d'état on the Iranian democratically elected Prime minister Mohammed Mosaddegh in 1953.

[@paulsheridan1737]

Why hasn’t Rambo received any credit? This is a disgraceful omission.

[@julians7058]

the fun part is Rambo - someone who is supposed to displlay an american in an american movie - says that Afghanistan is impossible to conquer... guess America didnt believe itself.... they just really wanted to try

[@mymusicaccount1456]

Watch the movie Charlie Wilson's War. Murica gave the Afghans stinger missiles so the Russians couldn't just fly over and destroy them with helicopters. The best Tom Hanks movie that nobody saw. + Philip Seymour Hoffman + Julia Roberts

[@factcheck8936]

Stupid!! Real heroes are mujahideen ... mulla omer

[@underfrog2352]

Why didn't Boss recieve credit either? He killed a bunch of Russians and stuff.

[@Oline1756]

Ghulam Qadir Mujahadeen made Afghanistan an islamic terrorist country

[@tipoomaster]

The tl;dr of a lot of these wars always seems to be the British are bad at drawing maps, lol

[@IA-jo4ve]

Well…… We’r back at square one right now

[@Coolsomeone234]

And the Northern Alliance is back up the mountains...

[@aramhalamech4204]

@@Coolsomeone234 With the son of Massoud in charge. It's like a bad hollywood reboot of a movie classic.

[@JackSparrah]

Watching this in the middle of August 2021 hits different

[@ryzen958]

taliban overthrowing the government

[@ethanbooher6399]

Last I was this early Putin was a KGB agent

[@sayeedhusseinsadat3284]

Fuck Russia we Afghan people whatever problem we have to this day is because of Russia's invasion. I hope one day we can get our revenge.

[@massineben7198]

hossin maddoh you saw that when the soviet (not russia) start invading, by request, the country was already screwed. if you want to blame someone, blame the Taliban

[@trudestroyrgaming4914]

What about the suppliers?

[@SebAnders]

To quote Putin himself "there's no such thing as a former KGB man."

[@christopherj9954]

hossin maddoh the country that attacked you was the soviet union Now its gone you already had your revenge

[@rippedreaper7279]

Oh my beloved country Afghanistan 😔 it pains me to see this 40 plus years of gruesome violence that you are going through.

[@justgamesaaron7968]

Nice abs tho

[@neonknight-1522]

Lol afghanistan has been like this since alexander the great rolled over the country.

[@joshouajones4043]

@@neonknight-1522 No, not really in the 50-60s it was actually doing well and was progressive. It had a lot of potential to be a great country. Due to government corruption and foreign power's interest in Afghanistan, it has left it in a constant cycle of fighting for 40+ years. That's why Afghanistan is currently in the stone age.

[@ProtomanButCallMeBlues]

@@joshouajones4043 No. Incredibly wrong. Afghanistan at its height was a trade hub for the silk road. The Mongols irreversibly fuckes it back to an agrarian tribal society that it never recovered from. From then on only a few cities where they had suezrain over tribes existed. They haven't fielded an army since they days of durrani (not counting the current ANA)

[@joshouajones4043]

@@ProtomanButCallMeBlues kzbin.info/www/bejne/oYK4g61vlrV0nqs ?????? Wtf? Lmao. Coming in here like you got all the facts. Jesus Christ there's nothing worse than someone who is ignorant trying to act like a know it all by making up shit.

[@viv7169]

It’s crazy how the B02 campaign where you fight with the Mujahideen isn’t just random shooting. U use US rockets to shoot down Soviet helicopters to stop their advance just like what actually happened strategically. Amazing job to the game developers for adding such historical accuracy to the mission when a mission of just shooting random people would have easily sufficed

[@MikoyanGurevichMiG21]

And it's even more well done when the Mujahideen turn their backs and betray you.

[@judgejudys3xdungeon94]

Cod games got me into history. BO1 and BO2 had you fighting in vietnam, afghanistan, panama, kazakhstan, angola, and all sorts of events were based on history. Good stuff

[@tonnentonie2767]

Well this was always a selling point of old cod. It's historical accuracy is one of the key points that made cod "not just another shooter"

[@mrkilo-g8794]

It's accurate, the US funded their own downfall

[@m3po22]

​@@mrkilo-g8794 more people die in traffic every day than on 9/11/2001

[@jspec-vz3mc]

I love how you guys didn't forget Gorbachevs birthmark. That may be one of the top 10 most historical birthmarks lol.

[@aqeel-3771]

plus he got noble peace prize and he was the talk of the 90s era.

[@crown1096]

top 1*

[@aw4704]

When you finally find a comment section that speaks about politics instead of blaiming it on religion.

[@Abazubair]

Blaming*

[@ShelbyGT500-]

yes because uneducated people will blame it on religion that's it when superpowers are the opressors as you can see people will talk politics but when an oppressed countries defend themselfs oohh it's islam !!!!!!

[@salt27dogg]

Religion as in Marxism. Is just as bad

[@Trackrace29582]

Teri Kay religion wins

[@illuminaticomfirmed6948]

Religion was a factor in the creation of some of these groups but like all ideologies it is merely a political tool in the grand scheme of things.

[@Ucheva]

I wonder what it was like living in Afghanistan for those 8 years where society was secular and women attended university...

[@dehechenka]

actually it was not that nice, unless ur were a upper class PASHTUN. the other ethnicities were left poor and backwards. in those 10 yrs they didnt make one book in the languages of ethnic minorities (Uzbeks, turkmen, baluch etc) and as a result they were left illiterate. they also pushed on pashtun nationalism and tried to promote pashtun language over persian which failed miserably. that is the reason why most fought against them, the man ahmad shah massoud was a secular but he fought because there was cruelty against non pashtuns etc. even today the US puppet government is run by pashtun nationalist, The 2 presidents(hamid karzai, ashraf ghani) several times called taliban their brothers.

[@robertc3263]

It was more than eight years, but the issue of modernization and westernization has always been a clash of cultures and ways of thinking in Afghanistan. In most large and major cities even now, most men and women are modern in terms of dress and the way they live their lives. The problem of social backlash always came from rural areas, where there's no formal state structure or rule of law. The problems with men like Khan, Amin, Karmal, and Najibullah always had no legitimacy in the eyes of a majority of the people. IMO, that's because all of their efforts at progress came from the top down, not the bottom up. They always jailed or killed their opponents, there was no real effort to actually negotiate with those rural areas, or pull people away from the power bases that gave say, rural leaders and clerics support. You might see those pics online of "Oh, here's what Afghanistan looked like before the Taliban" all over the internet, and it gives this appearance that the whole country was this modern oasis of rights and western freedoms. In Kabul, yes. In major cities, mostly yes. But I can show you different photos taken the same year as the others, of women in full burkas walking around in Kabul and major cities. Even in the late 70's, when the most radical communists were in power, some women still wore the burka. If there's no bottom-up approach as to telling these people why basic rights and freedoms are important and beneficial to all, modernization will never happen. It also has to happen slowly. You have to husband and garnish people to your way of thinking, it takes months if not years, or decades to do. These modernization/westernization efforts actually go all the way back to the 1940's. If you want an interesting story to read, I'd recommend reading "No Good Men Among the Living", by Anand Gopal. There's a story in there of a woman who grew up in Kabul under the communists, she went to college getting a degree in economics, was trained as a midwife and in some basic nursing skills and lived a very good life. But once the war started in '79, her and her husband fled to Urozgan Province, which is in the center of the country, but it has strong linkages via familial networks to the south, Kandahar. Which has always been a very tribal place. Her story goes from her living a good life, to becoming a burka-covered housewife in this rural village. She wasn't even allowed to speak to men through the door of the home she lived in. Surely enough as the years went on, she became a prisoner of the regressive Islamic culture there. There was a case in the book of a neighbor woman who was murdered by her mother-in-law because she "dishonored the family" because she talked back when her husband took a second wife. In these rural areas, women don't leave the home - ever. In an emergency, she has to have a male blood relative with her to leave, and she can only leave with either her father or husband. And you don't *ever* ask a male relative how his wife or daughters are. It all comes down to Islam's obsession with control over women, and the "honor" culture that's been sewn into Afghanistan's history because of it. Keep in mind, Afghanistan was once a country with a large number of Sikhs, Hindus, Zoroastrians, even a good-sized Christian and Jewish population before Islam came in and destroyed all that pluralism. If Islam hadn't come into Afghanistan, it would be no more fucked up a country than say, modern day Ukraine. It's ironic, the men who practice this culture the most, the Pashtuns, are said to be fierce warriors and defenders of their families. Yet now they're all strict, conservative Muslims. They've adopted a culture and religion that isn't theirs and it's utterly destroyed and retarded what could have been an amazingly modern and pluralistic country.

[@Che18335]

Robert C understanding Afghanistan through western eyes is almost impossible. What you define as "Islamic Culture" is more of an Afghan thing not an Islamic. You doesn't seem to understand that Afghanistan is first Afghanistan than a Muslim country. Britian is first Britain than Christian, if they still are religious. Secondly, the burqa is important to some rural people because it is a reflection of Afghanistans 1000ds of years history, not bec of Islam. Since ancient times foreign invention in Afghanistan meant rape and destruction, so to make your family and wife safe, you had them to "lock up". Especially since Afghanistan is country frequently invaded much more than other. To me und you it sounds ancient and uncivilized, but to your avarege rural farmer, who was born and has seen two invasions already, his father has seen one and his grandfather has seen one, it is their daily life. Plus ther is this recently brought wahabism from Saudi-Arabs to Afghanistan bringing this kind of thinking even to further extremes. I don't say it has absolutly nothing to do with Islam but saying it's just cause of Islam is a weak way to build an argument upon. The world isnt just black and white.

[@realcyberpirate]

@Doni Habib Nurmagamdov Khrosoni How about you fk off and take care of your tajerkistan and let us Afghans worry about Afghanistan. Besides, whatever you said is total BS. President & Prime Minister Daud Khan spoke in Dari(Afghan Persian) in US congress when he went there for a visit during his term. If he hated Dari then why the fk would he speak it and whatever interview you see of him, he always speaks Dari and same goes today. We(Pashtuns) are not racist or fascist, it's just that Pashtuns are more conservative and they don't care for language and culture and they will adopt anyones if they feel like it fits them , and that's why Herat is a Dari speaking Province but majority are Pashtuns same goes for other provinces. We don't care for language and if non ethic Pashtuns would be speaking Pashto now because we always have been in power. US supported warlords from 2001 till 2016 but nothing was achieved and they had to change their views and now are supporting a moderate and progressive Pashtun whose wife is Lebanese Christian(whom you people call Jewish and infidel) and speaks Dari not Pashto. See if Ashraf Ghani(The current president) hates Dari so much then why did he let his wife learn the language and speak it wherever she goes? So stop being a cu*t and stop spreading Propaganda.

[@KING.SOLOMON]

they attend university now... I wonder if stupidity can ever be dealt with before speaking.

[@Kolateak_]

"I declare myself president and prime minister" Everyone: Hmmmm

[@alienated_thoughts]

Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires, Pakistan offers the funeral service.😂

[@couldntcroptheimage4775]

India pays for the funeral.

[@captainstag8189]

*insert funeral dance meme*

[@drewupton321]

Captain Stag 😂😂

[@asianbrosas3603]

lol ;v; Ah yes cause Indians follow the delusional Muhammed.

[@sartainja]

It is a 🐫💩 country, so who cares.

[@willkatching9219]

FUCK YEAH THE AUSSIE MAN IS GONNA TALK ABOUT HISTORY

[@yourethatmantis5178]

it kinda makes sense though, Australia doesn't really have anything interesting in its history besides being a penal colony of Britain and losing a war to birds. so of course they would learn a lot of other nation's history because you gotta fill those history textbooks with something.

[@FeatureHistory]

Ah, if only. They cram those textbooks full of the same stuff just again and again and again. History classes are fairly shit here.

[@Suibhne]

You'reThatMantis History in Australian schools is lacking if you seek any sort of marginally relevant topics but overflowing if you seek to be flogged with the battle of Gallipoli

[@osnisida]

just start emu war 2 and kill every emu you see maybe take out a few kangaroos holding dogs hostage

[@akrybion]

Americans had Vietnam, Russia had Afghanistan and Australia had Emus.

[@taitaisanchez]

“Graveyard of empires.” Unless you’re the Mongols.

[@ABC-qd5oc]

Cue the mongol-tage *trumphet sounds and horse riding intensifies*

[@hunkwasbisyan007]

Bloody idiot!!!!!!.... back in Mongol era, there wasn't even a country called Afghanistan.

[@ABC-qd5oc]

Look at all these people missing the "unless you're the mongols" joke from crash course world history I feel sorry for them mate :D

[@baronofbahlingen9662]

taitaisanchez It’s a dumb name considering almost every empire in the area conquered it

[@hunkwasbisyan007]

Baron of Bahlingen Bloody idiot!!!!!!.... back in those great Empires era(including the Mongol ones), there wasn't even a country called Afghanistan.

[@GenScinmore]

The little details like the Enfields changing and the Soviets using AK74s make me happy :)

[@CaptainBones222]

Damn, the chain of events this war has caused which continued all the way until today is crazy

[@aramhalamech4204]

Welcome to the post Fall-of-Kabul era. We can savely say that the post 9/11 era is no more. And what a ride it has been. Like a bad fever dream, only that the doctor has prescribed magic mushrooms against the fever.

[@ysbrandvdvelde4352]

So ISIS is kinda like a creation turns on it's creator kinda situation?

[@sh4nsei159]

Ysbrand vd Velde yea

[@rudecrok4734]

Ysbrand vd Velde abomination*

[@djeieakekseki2058]

Ysbrand vd Velde well they didn't turn back against US

[@ShelbyGT500-]

no lol they did not turn back they were still used by the US as pretext to declare war against Afghanistan just to invade the country knowing that 9/11 was an inside job "please tell me how the fuck can 2 planes put down 3 buildings ?!"

[@jesseivers9825]

Ameen Shindoli then why is usa fighting isis????

[@agentham]

Fun fact: Bin Laden left Afghanistan in late 2001 (Battle of Tora Bora) for Pakistan, making the conflict that ensued pretty pointless. But Pakistan is the USA's ally......... Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

[@shazkhan85]

Another disappointing fact: Bin Laden was actually recruited by the CIA in 1983-84, in order to funnel the weapons & dollars to keep the red army busy.

[@Holdmybeef]

Shaz Khan and guess who paid him to turn on us... China, fuck china

[@abdul8685]

@@Holdmybeef Wait,...what?? Bin laden didnt like the fact that US was building military bases in Saudi Arabia. Thats why he had beef with the US. It was all due to US foreign policy toward the Arabs and the middle east

[@Holdmybeef]

Abdul Danishwar nope chinas fault

[@mirzahamzabaig5667]

@@Holdmybeef Lol Blame on others as usual huh?

[@esthervenable101]

It's a really interesting subject if you dive deeper into it, this video is just an incredible oversimplification of it, not taking away that it was a great video. A war that doesn't get much attention and deserves more.

[@robertoosornia7235]

This man really said “might of heard of him” LMAOOOO

[@liamgarrison3369]

This really is one of the best history channels on KZbin. I'm not even mad that they come out so rarely, because the videos are so well done. Keep up the good work

[@trifarianboi3043]

Moral of the story: don't cold war and drive.

[@trayanaz3530]

Well this has become suddenly relevant again .

[@jamescrippen792]

Me when I first heard about this: fucking commies! Go to hell! Me now: Ya know maybe we shoulda let the commies do their thing

[@wv8d]

When everyone is laughing about the vietnam war but nobody is talking about the afganistan war *stealthy soviet noises

[@yogap6162]

becoz US also lose the war there

[@duffy6542]

but you cant hear the stealthy soviet noises. Too....stealthy.

[@Garviel_Loken.]

When people say only about soviet army in Afganistan fighting terrorists supported by US and don't speak why did US support terrorists *stealthy american noises

[@captainstag8189]

@@Garviel_Loken. they were supporting the Mujahideen. Wait no, to sum it up for you I give you this US perspective: -Soviet invade Country= More Soviet influence -Random people who want to fight Soviet= No Soviet influence US: I don't give shit who those guys are as long as they fight the Reds they're the good guys yeah, they don't care who they support as long they're not in Soviet influence they got all the support they wanted

[@playerbruv9329]

@@Garviel_Loken.they weren't terrorists at the time you stupid dumbass. They were rebels.

[@comraderaptor4996]

A horrible heatwave engulfs Britain, and I lay here at 3.28am, with a crotch like the Florida Everglades, and this upload pleases me.

[@FirefoxisredExplorerisblueGoog]

Ayy, even when it's sunny Britain is wet.

[@andro7862]

Bitch please, lower the damn rollers on windows and it isn't that hot at all.

[@julenliantrehe6780]

Max Dunn My country is hell in summer :'(

[@FTW3152]

What's the temperature there?

[@LFGRETIRED]

+David Cruz Today was ~32 degrees, or 90 Fahrenheit.

[@coolvania]

One of my favorite history channels on KZbin. The puns are improving too so keep up the good work! :D

[@codyblea3638]

Gun nut here, I appreciate your efforts in giving proper model of weapons to each side. You thought I wouldn't notice the AKM and the 74.

[@generalissimodoviciano6231]

You may have to upgrade this video soon

[@Loop42]

So happy you made a video on this! I just recently started working on a video for a History project in school, so thanks!

[@golvan963]

Could you do a video about the French expedition to Mexico? Great content as always btw.

[@danilshirnin2406]

Can’t wait for the American version of the video now.

[@rayh6118]

Waiting for the us to collapse into 50 countries

[@rayh6118]

@Jon Doe im not mad that the us is a superpower in fact i am proud of it but i only said this for meme reasons

[@shermanbrown419]

@Jon Doe China would say otherwise

[@Coolsomeone234]

Just have the second half and switch Russia and US and there you go (6:47)

[@Mark-Wilson]

@Jon Doe lol if you think usa will sttay forever you are delusional eventually it will fail like all countries will a new country or coutnries will replace its place someday

[@GenMaj_Knight]

Now why would this be recommended to me now?

[@pattymellon7740]

In Soviet Russia, terrorists don't attack you, you attack terrorists.

[@someone-wi4xl]

funny to read that knowing Russia got fucked in Afghanistan and later in Chechen

[@bny7y]

You mean you attack an innocent country and create terrorists

[@jeanlouis7547]

wew lad no he mean "attacking terrorist"

[@sub3er033]

Russia wasnt got fucked in Afghanistan, look the casualitis of sides, russia leaved afghanistan(like usa in vietnam but more seccessfully). And Russia won Chechen war.

[@tamimazizy7185]

well yeah, they did

[@FireflyActual]

I love the attention to detail - Lee Enfields and Type 56 assault rifles for the Mujahideen, AK-74s for the Soviets and Afghan government troops. Well played sir.

[@karlleego2513]

Afganistan is the true GOAT. Won against the USSR, USA while losing almost every battle. ok ok jokes aside Gurilla warfare carried out by a motivated group(usually religion) is a hell of a weapon

[@c0llegeboard439]

that exit strategy sounds... familiar

[@graanmanely6756]

Thank you for making important videos like these that affect us to this day, instead of the same war that is so redone by many channels.

[@synet7358]

Since Afghan war ended in 1989, It was a shutdown for USSR in 1991. Could you make the story about The Fall of Soviet Union?

[@jugofmilk41]

MrSynet easy all you need to really know is people turned to alcohol to ignore the problems of severe poverty lack of food poor leadership oh and a near dead economy

[@genghiskhan7691]

@@jugofmilk41 The Soviet Union was mainly destroyed due to Chernobyl. The Soviets had to withdraw most troops from Afghanistan to focus on the nuclear accident.

[@freemindrebel-zj6jc6qy9f]

@@genghiskhan7691 afgan and Chernobyl is result.

[@fearanarchy]

No matter how the video turns out... That Pun Dad Joke at the beginning earned my thumbs up!

[@tylerford2370]

This video be hitting different now.

[@oddish2253]

"Soviet families take awhile to get fed because they love Stalin" - A careless little joke that got my grandfather three years in the gulag.

[@aegonii8471]

Oddish They should've castrated him. Chill I'm just messing.

[@finnelhumano6096]

Pretty sure that word play doesn't translate to Russian so I will call bullshit,

[@TheStarkman123]

What word?

[@marduchok]

in most of cases it wasn't necessary to even say the word to be gulaged or executed in Soviet 1930-50s

[@mitchelll7846]

whats 500 metres long and only eats potatos? soviet people lining up for meat

[@drunkonrootbeer6085]

I know I'm late but I love the attention to detail in every vid. I did not expect to see an Afghan long rifle used to represent Afghanistan. Excellent!

[@theanalysisguy0502]

Would definitely recommend reading William Polks violent politics. Covers Vietnam and Afghanistan not to mention American war of independence. Incredibly interesting and useful.

[@gnumblinjones69]

Well the USA “liberated” Afghanistan

[@forkrust9296]

Just to be under an even more shittier and ruthless regime.

[@ReySchultz121]

Oil

[@adrianwalthall4870]

I was in northeastern Afghanistan and the Navy had geological survey maps showing insane amounts of lithium. Countries like China and India are readying to pounce in the wake of global lithium demand.

[@sooryan_1018]

User name checks out

[@igesbpro]

@@forkrust9296 Uhh...wut?

[@maxhess3151]

What a heartwarming story. Isn't it just beautiful when disputes are worked out peacefully?

[@jabloko992]

4:31 skip great courses plus

[@Awhreadyyyy]

This was great. Tied together so many things!

[@savio8702]

What comes around, goes around.

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

Battle of Castle Itter? Also, even though this is only ten minutes, I get a little too excited when I see you post new videos. I had planned to do a channel with a 'wise-ass History' slant to it, I'm happy to see you've beaten me to it. I think you're doing better than I ever could.

[@lol51329]

You gained a following quite fats. I was among your first 10k subs, now 141k. Congrats man.

[@economykho2845]

first rule to keep your empire: 1 - never invade afghanistan

[@seonderadam3898]

Why ? I mean, almost every country rap€d it and then left it.

[@tomaszzalewski4541]

2 - don't invade Russia in winter

[@retrodreamm9232]

@@tomaszzalewski4541 Russia ❤

[@khorasan2152]

@@seonderadam3898 Thats the thing, u cant defeat an enemy that sees paradise at the end of the barrel, wt else are they going to lose? they just keep on fighting while knowing their loses, Im quoting the last sentence when the british attacked afghanistan

[@derekhenschel3191]

I love how the soviet flags were given what are clearly very well drawn ak74m rifles while the mujahideen was given well drawn akm rifles very nice accuracy there

[@mohammadaslam-vw4lm]

welp im afghan. some time when i hear about the war(that happening right now)i get a bit sad bc it´s my homelandand my family is there

[@generalcaesar3477]

I really hope Feature History does a video on Alexander the Great's conquests and/or the Wars of his Successors

[@johnvonshepard9373]

Already too many video about Alexander the Great on youtube so i hope not.

[@ramdobe9276]

This video needs a part 2 in 2021!

[@CxrsairXO]

guys im stuck on a question: why might some people argue that the soviet invasion of afghanistan served american purpose? can u guys help me out

[@shekharkarna9113]

america was against spread of communism

[@Epicvampire800]

gave them an excuse to eventually invade afghanistan which is rich in rare earth elements, a market currently dominated by china. although it served their interests in the long run i don't think anybody was thinking about it at the time

[@kirsoppthomas]

You should make a video on the history of Rhodesia(Modern Day Zimbabwe). Such an interesting time that never really gets the attention it should.

[@b.sapounas5110]

Tom Crazy shadilay my fellow kekistani

[@seanweldon905]

Rhodesians never say die!

[@deusvult1202]

bill the gamer greece S H A D I L A Y fellow shitposter. Retake constantinople!

[@Mitchery]

billthegamergreece *cuckistani

[@gavinhoffman3450]

Jay Bannon No the UK claimed it and called it Rhodesia. It was named Zimbabwe after it was invaded by a Soviet backed malitias.

[@gostavoadolfos2023]

do something about Algerian war. from the French conquest to the Algerian independence.

[@almighty5839]

The graveyard of empires that has defeated the mighty USA and ussr empires which is sad honestly

[@almighty5839]

@Rob J maybe learn some fuckin history the ussr and USA were called empires and still are because of there sheer size and power

[@johnschrader7949]

@@almighty5839 Why not learn some fucking history yourself and realize the USSR doesn't exist anymore.

[@almighty5839]

@Rob J like that’s a comeback you literally have some shitty anime pfp lmfaooo I doubt you know anything about fuckin history

[@hibye7385]

Read Lenin's "Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism" if you want to learn about empire.

[@theunitedstatesofamerica1559]

I should've just let the Soviets have Afghanistan

[@emiliorodriguez6438]

tbh

[@user-iy9uq4rv6w]

duh

[@Muslim-og3vc]

cry about it

[@hi5252]

@@Muslim-og3vc 😂

[@rachelmcclain5367]

Bruh was this account created just to make this comment?

[@honzabalak3462]

Now this is a master piece. I am surprised and pleased to see that even the guns in this video are correct - Type 56 for Mujahedeen and AK-74 for Soviets.

[@drmustafa3538]

Long live Afghanistan Much love from iraq 🇦🇫🖤🇮🇶

[@Johnny_m60]

Thank you 😊 🇮🇶🇦🇫

[@sahilsomsagar9870]

How is iraq now ???

[@jagerreal]

@@sahilsomsagar9870 a desert with small cities and some wars in some areas.

[@AM-cl8ti]

@@jagerreal a dessert that made you soldiers psychos and shit themselves ever since. “We never lose, we win or die”

[@sahelamiri2191]

Thanks ❤️

[@rinsedpie]

Do continue the war (or any war, really). I hv been eagerly watching from the comfort of my sofa from a very early. Its so entertaining to follow who beats whom this week. Its like soccer league

[@urimhoxha232]

You are very correct at the weapons type of users.

[@mattfasold4789]

Way to put that add in the middle of the video

[@alexkirchner882]

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[@AndrewVasirov]

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[@carterroane1034]

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[@alexkirchner882]

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[@gruntdetonators]

Sir Alex adversary

[@annabelrhodes3035]

Congrats on pronouncing some of those names!

[@user-iy9uq4rv6w]

4:40 often see this mistake. By that time it wasn't called the Red Army but the Soviet Army

[@meem0h]

Very informative. Thanks you so much for this video.

[@kyllianmasson4830]

You should talk about Napoleon the third. He is important, but even in France we rarely talk about him.

[@carolusrex4469]

After all he did host the coronation of Germany's first Kaiser

[@maxkujala3184]

I am amazed by the time that you have invested in this. The time it has taken to figure out these animations.... holy shit.... Good job. wow!

[@Coolsomeone234]

6:46 sounds familiar...

[@kasualstudio7141]

"And no foreign power would intervene" Legit every single super power: OK we will *totally not intervene* with Afghan affairs and defiantly not deploy our troops into Afghanistan, continuing a civil war. Also them: *He he he, like THATS ever gonna happen....*

[@jokerMCify]

Love your videos (watched all of them). However, what to make a little mention on 4:40 of this video. In 1979 the army of Soviet Union was called Soviet Army (1946-1991), not Red Army (1922-1946).

[@swedemartyrsonswade]

I'm very saddened of what really happened in afghanistan. If the king hasn't been abdicated, it would be very rich by now!

[@felixking2546]

From what? They really dont have anything other then minerals and leopard geckos.

[@rizamayasari2656]

@@felixking2546 they have WEEDS

[@kjrmh973]

@@felixking2546 at least one trillion worth of minerals mind you. www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.html Afghanistan in addition to its strategic geographical position, holds many natural resources (of which oil and gas) which could have been clearly sufficient for its population to live very comfortably. Be wary of a seemingly desert landscape.

[@forkrust9296]

@@felixking2546 The country was rapidly westernising back in the 60's or so.Sad that it fell to regional powers and islamic extremists.

[@hamzashinwary4215]

@@forkrust9296 Good thing it did, Western degeneracy will not be tolerated here.

[@Jarod-sm5rf]

0:08 that got a chuckle out of me.

[@abelesperanz4196]

thats the kind of youtuber this site needs, freely saying what any youtuber actually wants to say to his scum subscribers and spiting on them after. Subscribed

[@magnuscoles5010]

my father fought on the mujahideen side and he always says that we shouldn't have won that war

[@AfghanHearts]

communism in afghanistan was the possibly the darkest and worst episodes in afghan history. thanks to God, the afghans defeated the soviets and ousted the communists

[@afghanistanthesatankillers2895]

Guys I am from Afghanistan too . no shame for seeking knowledge and learning but there is shame for the lack of knowledge and being ignorant . Afghanistan destroyed by our own people not from Soviet Union not by any foreign countries why because the ignorant afghan pro Pakistani they are the ones who open the door for the communism , for Pakistan and foreign fighters to come to our country and destroy our lives so we should not blame anybody except our selves

[@AGK7869]

AfghanHearts it's because of people like u that Afghanistan is a shit whole rn. No offence. Do u support Taliban and isis or something?

[@gladonos3384]

Who do you guys hate more: Russian Troops OR American Troops?

[@AGK7869]

GLaDOnOS don't hate the troops. They are good people like us. It's their leaders and government that are evil and have corrupt agendas. The troops are just the puppets doing what they are told. They are brain washed to kill innocent people thinking that they are defending their country and family

[@Odd_Krieger]

Massoud : *aight imma head out*

[@lialaliala2968]

Thank you so much for knowledgeable information 👌

[@jackwagner6093]

dude thanks this video was insanely helpful

[@Nmille98]

Add another empire to the list, lads.

[@mdn6554]

Can you please do Apartheid, and a little bit of the history of South Africa. I would be more than happy to help.

[@masterbowler5202]

The war is fitting very well for Red Orchestra 3.

[@philbecker4676]

The irony of this is so chilling.

[@cbeech8622]

Damn it! Right as I was about to go to sleep.

[@stellaamerican6137]

I currently live in Australia and my background is from Afghanistan and Iceland. It's also very surprising to me that this actually happened.

[@Miuranger1]

One of your parents is a tratior is pasthun race.

[@waqasali-cf5ch]

To remind U belong to namakharam nation

[@koksu5692]

7:11 what a beautiful moment in history

[@thespanishinquisition2200]

Four years later and it all finally falls apart