How the USSR Lost the Afghan War - Panjshir Valley Battles DOCUMENTARY

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Kings and Generals animated historical documentary series on Modern Warfare continues with a video on the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 - Operation Storm-333 ( • Soviet Invasion of Afg... ). This video will describe why the USSR lost the Afghan war despite winning most battles and will feature the battles of the Panjshir valley, operation Magistral and the withdrawal of the Soviet army.
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[@KingsandGenerals]

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[@KiranSingh-zr8jr]

Love your videos

[@SafavidAfsharid3197]

Hope you cover the Afghan civil war also.

[@gellegrainja9805]

Cool.

[@ahmadyounas7372]

Kings and general's when will you upload battle of masts????

[@purvalama6540]

LONG LIVE WEED

[@dinolandia8978]

"The situation could not be trusted with the notoriously unreliable Afghan Army." -well, some things never change.

[@luckabuse]

Well, after SU left the regime stayed for 3 years. SU occupation is a best thing ever happened to Afghan according to modern polls. After US left Afghan army lasted a day. That's a difference in motivations bribes and corruption versus schools and universities

[@Wakamolewonder]

@@luckabuse Nah, afghans just learned not to trust occupying forces and not to fight their proxy wars.

[@dinolandia8978]

@@barbaroslar2235 The SU had a lot of Communist trained Afghans. Not all of them were military. A large number had been technically or scientifically educated within the Soviet universities or academies. These people were not the same as the Afghan Army which were mostly conscripts from rural areas and had little if any prior experience dealing with the Soviets.

[@michaelsurratt1864]

@@luckabuse It’s almost like the Soviet union was right next-door to Afghanistan crazy

[@greeneast]

@@michaelsurratt1864 or maybe the DRA wasnt a puppet government? Your brain power, your conclusion.

[@Smurfonshroom]

It’s haunting to think that Afghanistan has been in a state of in and off warfare ever since 1979

[@dxsaqibdy]

Even before that they were battling british and gave them humiliating defeat

[@abdullah19_m]

@@dxsaqibdy well BRITISH defeated them in 2nd Anglo Wae

[@dxsaqibdy]

@@abdullah19_m yes none were able to take hold of Afganistan. During the first war only one british soldier survived and even after there defeat they quickly rose up and they still had some level of autonomy which is a big victory considering that the british were ruling half of the world back then

[@bastianbezon2687]

@@abdullah19_m the first was won by afghans, second one lost, third one won again. So 2-1 to afghans

[@anghellicamakes2792]

more like since 1000BC

[@wach9191]

My stepdads uncle fought in this one, on Soviet side as he is from Lithuania. Still has PTSD to this day.

[@asta775]

People ik fought from mujahideen side They dont have any ptsd

[@mohdabrarali7434]

@@asta775 what's ptsd

[@mk-oe8yx]

@@mohdabrarali7434 that's what the mujahideen say 😂

[@mohdabrarali7434]

@@mk-oe8yx what is the full form or meaning of it

[@luckabuse]

Your relative saved a lot of lifes and prevented big drug flow.

[@AyoubusMagnus]

"How can you win against someone who sees heaven in the end of the barrel" soviet soldier quote

[@TheTommy9898]

Mongols: send em all go heaven then

[@mohammedfarseen6046]

@@TheTommy9898 later mongols were given one way ticket to hell so properly that they later started seeing heaven before the sword

[@TheTommy9898]

@@mohammedfarseen6046 sure, then Timur came to seal the deal

[@thoughtshewasaryan2591]

@@TheTommy9898 that time when you realize timur was a muslin lol

[@TheTommy9898]

​@@thoughtshewasaryan2591 so what? Most mongols converted to muslim anyways. Islam neither caused nor stopped any of them (including Timur) from their brutality streak. I mean after all, a faithful muslim like Timur SURELY won't massacre entire communities of fellow faithful muslims right? Riiight?

[@awesomehpt8938]

The Soviet Union’s withdrawal was actually pretty orderly in comparison to the American’s they just drove out through the border

[@threathy]

Well withdrawal is always a withdrawal.

[@vin8889]

I mean yes and no… there’s a difference between a retreat and an organized retreat

[@ashwinraj8777]

Yup even after Soviet left Najibullah govt survived till 1992... That means 3 yrs.... After US withdrawal they hardly last for 3 mnths....

[@hanzalaomar9915]

@@ashwinraj8777 more like 10 days

[@andreassewell7413]

@@vin8889 America's defeat is a rout. Russia's defeat was a withdrawal.

[@HistoryOfRevolutions]

"The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins" - Soren Kierkegaard

[@lionelhutz5137]

@Halim Abdullayev inshallah!

[@michaeldangelo4521]

Not if we martyr them ALL

[@GhGh-sj4wb]

The Afghans regained their land from the US occupation🔥💪🏼

[@mojotheaverage]

@@michaeldangelo4521 you tried... and failed, miserably

[@michaeldangelo4521]

@@mojotheaverage oh no. I didn’t try. I wasn’t there.

[@kyrg]

I was in Panjshir in 2010. I worked with an Afghan Colonel who was a Mujahideen Commander during the Soviet invasion. I commented on the large amount of abandoned / destroyed Russian armor still in the valley. He said "You think this is a lot? There used to be as many as the hairs on my head" Panjshir is one of the most beautiful parts of the world I've been to, I hope one day it can fine the peace it deserves.

[@OliverFlinn]

well now that you guys also lost the war and left, peace is essentially back.

[@kyrg]

@@OliverFlinn Peace as long as you follow the Taliban rules, Most people don't enjoy living like the year 700 AD.

[@glennmandigo6069]

@@OliverFlinn WRONG IT'S WORSE Also, we were betrayed, not defeated

[@uxaines8910]

Бок издеп бардыны ал жерге

[@kyrg]

@@uxaines8910 бирок сени таба алат

[@scottsaunders5453]

The similarities are so eerie - never knew that the Afghan army had such a reputation of unreliability dating back even before the US departure.

[@sundog486]

The Afgans are not a nation but a group of tribes. Loyalty will be highest to their tribe, rather than the "government".

[@stillshehzada]

People have to read full history of afghanistan from 17th century. This country is not peace of cake to eat but drope of poisen that will kill you.

[@HowlingWolf518]

Can't create a late industrial military out of a feudal country - the worldviews don't line up.

[@luxemag4347]

you misread the facts on the ground. Read Akio's comment. You complain your mercenary pikemen routed first in a sim game.

[@davestevens6283]

In order to have an army you need the soldiers to be willing to die for an abstract idea of a country, nation or cause, prefer it over self-preservation and protection of their own families even, accept the hierarchy, for them to have the trust that their commanders and brothers in arms are like minded and are committed as they are, and that fighting will be rewarded with respect and\or money - otherwise you either surrender. The US government figured long ago that it has actually become hostage an Afghan regime which has no viability and the internal legitimacy required to keep an army on its own. It had to do its best to make the appearance of trust, while making plans to get out as quickly as possible, with zero casualties if possible, as a top priority - meaning zero coordination with local forces and persons, since any leak or betrayal could undermine that top priority. They obviously hoped to have more time and make a better exit in the PR sense, but were probably willing to accept this scenario as well as better than having hundreds of casualties over months of withdrawal.

[@rewoppop]

I'll be waiting for the British and the US version of this release!

[@JAG8691]

The US episode will be : " The 20 year war to replace the Taliban with the Taliban. "

[@Veritas.0]

@@kellscorner1130 You left one out.

[@weirdofromhalo]

@@JAG8691 Replace the extremists with the less extreme. The Taliban has become less extreme over the years because of all the assassinations of the extremists. We'll see if the Taliban can actually run a government.

[@JAG8691]

@@weirdofromhalo Less Extreme Better Equipped Taliban -" Build the Taliban Back Better " with USA Taxpayers donation in the range of about 82 Billion US Dollars - able to Meme much better than President Xiaou Bai Den's administration.

[@farhatk6054]

@@kellscorner1130 in what era of the 5000-year-old of China's history did the Chinese conqueror or invade other countries ?

[@agxec2932]

We need a next video on how Rambo single handedly decimated the Soviets in pitched battles in Afghanistan. It's because of Rambo that Soviets lost the war.

[@ScottyShaw]

Not quite. Colonel Trautman played a key role as well!

[@ErnestJay88]

Rambo is back, he single handedly defeat Taliban and make US win the Afghan War. (according to Hollywood)

[@alswann2702]

That's Sargent John Rambo to you, buddy!

[@Ninjersey1]

@Akio jayyid believe me the CIA had quite a few Rambos out there secretly helping your countryman.Sabotage,training soldiers,you name it we were there

[@VonGoldfinger]

That’s the vid we don’t deserve but the vid that we need.

[@lkgrave4959]

USA in 2001: We won't make the same mistakes. 20 years later, made the same mistakes.

[@davidblair9877]

20 years later? Kid, we started making the same mistakes in 2001. It just took us 20 years to admit it.

[@elmascapo6588]

The mistake was not putting enough men

[@elmascapo6588]

@@victuz well, then the soviets were the braindeath since they did expect peace and stability

[@elmascapo6588]

@@victuz the soviets being more braindeath in that one

[@davidblair9877]

@@elmascapo6588 so did the geniuses running the Bush administration. Rumsfeld and Cheney genuinely thought they could just walk into Afghanistan, order an election held, and that would be that. Never asked how the election would be organised, or whether some Afghans might resent foreign troops in their homes, or what domestic politics might look like, or...any of it. Walk in, unfurl a banner, let the little people figure it out from there. Idiots.

[@ycplum7062]

The US military warned the Bush Jr administration that occupying Afghanistan would problematic, but Rumsfeld was dismissive of them.

[@ycplum7062]

@@victuz Many people think that Generals all are looking for anexcuse to go to war because that is what they spent their careers studying. More often than not, they tend to be conservative (some say pessimistic). It is the politicians that are over optimistic and fail to understand teh level of effort and follow through required in war.

[@ycplum7062]

@@michaelpetrovich5353 I saw Rumsfeld as Admiral Tarkin. Cheney would be Senator Palpatine, th epuppet master hiding in the shadows.

[@driffbro3380]

@@ycplum7062 then who would be Darth Vader?

[@ycplum7062]

@@driffbro3380 I was split between Rumsfeld and Bush Jr, but lean toward Rumsfeld. However, a mashup of the two would likely be a better fit. LOL

[@mojotheaverage]

'The aura of might of the soviet Union was shattered' Sounds familiar

[@barbiquearea]

Thankfully the United States hasn't dealt with its own Chernobyl disaster yet.

[@dillonblair6491]

@Gaurav Khanna Not really, we aren't even really in syria.

[@BcroG11]

@@barbiquearea US society is completely divided. Americans look at their fellow men as enemies. Add on top of that extreme wealth inequality and financial insecurity of ordinary folks because of unfettered capitalism and you have a recipe for disaster.

[@joevenespineli6389]

If America is an empire in its own right then I wonder in what stage is it in now? End of the golden age? The middle of its decline?

[@sntslilhlpr6601]

@@joevenespineli6389 I think the end of the golden age was probably 9/11, though the seeds of our doom were planted a couple decades earlier with disastrous tax cuts for the rich, deregulation, and the rise of right-wing propaganda outlets. And while I'm extremely pessimistic about our future and have been for many years, the doomers who think we're anywhere close to the middle or end of our decline are delusional. This beast will kick and scream for quite a bit longer and none of us alive today are likely to see its end. Just continually worse quality of life. Seems kinda trendy for people to think the end is near, but there's just too much momentum for that to be the case outside of something crazy like a huge natural disaster (the "big one", yellowstone, asteroid, etc) or nuclear war. The difference between the Soviet Union and the US is huge so it's not a good comparison. The USSR's power came from the perception of its power. The US doesn't have to pretend. We're more like Rome, and it took a long ass time for Rome to collapse.

[@ElBandito]

Americans then: LoL, the Soviets didn't learn from our Vietnam. Russians now: LoL, the Americans didn't learn from our Afghanistan.

[@barbiquearea]

Afghanistan: Who's next? Bring it on!

[@ironheart5830]

@@barbiquearea Pakistan challenge accepted :D

[@TheRandCrews]

@@barbiquearea lmao china

[@indranildutta5838]

@@barbiquearea Afghanistan will be ruled by Afghans not by a third party

[@indranildutta5838]

@blahblahblah blah time will tell

[@exposingproxystalkingorgan4164]

All wars are connected to each other by a chain link of related events that can span years, decades, or centuries.

[@rakaipikatan8922]

Kings and Generals: Taliban: *"Are you sure about that?"*

[@thegreenknight1970]

Yea because Afghan are only good at hiding in their mountains.

[@Jupiter.141]

The mujahideen beat the soviets head on while the taliban just won because of an agreement plus because of humanitarian political bullcrap, NATO was on leash

[@m6narch]

@@thegreenknight1970 try to live on top of those mountains, you won’t last a month It’s called hindukush for a reason

[@superlumbagoman9370]

@@ismaelbvb889 exposed in the middle of a valley so they can be killed, I suppose.

[@flogger8413]

@@Jupiter.141 "beat the soviets headon" you speak of Mujahids as if they're the most effective but in reality they are extremely weak when it comes to actual combat. War Analysts agreed the Soviets were for the most part effective. Although the Soviets managed to Stabilize the region they did not solve the core issues (primarily violation of religious and cultural beliefs) that ensured the insurgency would persist. Not to mention brutal scorched earth operations. When the soviets stopped supporting Afghanistan in 91 it was only a matter of time the country would collapse. The U.S. has made a similar mistake to the Soviets, and will inevitably ensure a similar outcome

[@Hakazu]

I wish you guys were my history teachers when I was younger, would have learned way more. Good work as usual!

[@betweenthedimensions8315]

You can still learn from this channel now…?

[@FeverMutt]

Yeah. Your Marxist teachers were too busy teaching you how to be a good little communist.

[@ProvidenceNL]

@@FeverMutt You dont even know what the words mean that you're using.

[@sev5348]

Never too late to learn

[@Samirustem]

Should be carefull teaching history. Some teachers just feed people history. This channel does that to. It is not good for children. It makes the them intellectually lazy. I am very greatfull I had teacher who always made us comment on history

[@snowfox-xc1qq]

I'm not sure if this is a new thing but Kings and Generals doing a modern video is something I really enjoy, please keep doing more of these.

[@ExcelonTheFourthAvalonHeirs]

They do it times to times.

[@Razendle]

I really enjoyed the six day war and the gulf wars video

[@ExcelonTheFourthAvalonHeirs]

@@Razendle Pretty much about Israel.

[@lyonvensa]

It's one of their rarer series, but it's still quality content for sure~

[@muhammadrayhanfirdaus1309]

coz it's still about "Kings" and Generals, maybe? with more firepower ofc

[@mafiosomemer3730]

The US and Coalition: *Left Afghanistan in a botched plan* *Post-Soviet Russia:* First time?

[@ahadisgoat]

Finally a documentary on this interesting war.

[@maninthemiddleground2316]

Soviet Withdrawal in Afghanistan was “How not to end the war” until America broke the record when they withdrew from the same country. 😅

[@bingingbinging8597]

Yeah but the withdrawal was nothing like this lol. 13 marines dead only and 100,000 evacuated. Not even CLOSE to the chaos of this one

[@commisaryarreck3974]

@@bingingbinging8597 Alongside an 83 billion dollar donation to the terrorists lol

[@DickCheneyXX]

Genocide should have been considered more seriously on both occasions. This sets a bad precedent.

[@ernstholm8070]

Don't talk about stuff that you are too dumb to understand 😂

[@Methodius7]

@@bingingbinging8597 Soviet installed government survived for 5 more years. US puppet one for 2 weeks :D

[@historydoesntrepeatitselfb7818]

This feels like a crime watching for free, this content is the cut of the cream of even commercial documentaries, well done kings and generals you have a patron

[@ubuk-5676]

no it is not a crime to watch free this kind of things should be free

[@ubuk-5676]

not everyone living with the us dollar or euros it is too much for us to pay this kind of things in our country

[@nudisco7882]

Their Patreon listed in the About Section 👍

[@PerryKobalt]

@@ubuk-5676 so true

[@joschafinger126]

One word: Patreon

[@RangoKing]

One of the Best Shortest videos I have ever watched on Afghan soviet War!! Hats off to the video makers!!!!

[@mikedoingmikethings702]

Another awesome K&G episode!!! Would you please include approximate month and year for these battles? I would feel more immersed in the story… THANK YOU!!!

[@SAMAYDOSTDAR]

Both of my grandfathers fought in the soviet Afghan war and the father of my father died in one those battles while my grandfather from my mother's side died just few years ago of old age

[@GreaterAfghanistanMovement]

I had family on both sides that died fighting alongside the Mujhadeen

[@arminius6506]

@@GreaterAfghanistanMovement and what's your KZbin name??? Stop making this crap up

[@SAMAYDOSTDAR]

@@GreaterAfghanistanMovement او بچه راست میگی یا نه

[@mwanikimwaniki6801]

@@GreaterAfghanistanMovement Interesting

[@GreaterAfghanistanMovement]

@@arminius6506 Its KZbin pajeet, people can chose any name they like. You can call yourself "Pakistani Warrior" for all i care.

[@mexicoball2529]

Communist Afghanistan: Withdraw while you can homie i hold them off (lasts for 3 years) US: Please hold while i withdraw Afghanistan: AHHHHHHHHHh

[@elmascapo6588]

It's easy when you have airbases next to the country and you can bomb them for 3 years (2 million afgan civilians were killed in this 10 year war)

[@LordMiles]

I’ve been to the valley, there is now a museum there with tanks that were left behind and have been painted by locals. There is a toilet (portable toilet with a hole cut in it) at the top that has the best view but there is a house directly below the toilet so I felt bad for using it

[@Dave1-08]

Any chance of doing a video on the events after the soviet withdrawal? The Taliban takeover in the 90s, the US invasion after 9/11, later NATO operations such as Operation Medusa and the the advance of the Taliban in the summer of 2021 would make a decent series.

[@Rakkasan2013L]

I second this!

[@fanbuoy9234]

Very interesting topic, but it's difficult to properly capture something which is still ongoing to that extent. Some historical distance is often necessary in order to get a better understanding of the various factors and details going on, but also some emotional distance from the events themselves.

[@artz5665]

It will require Hollywood kind of money. And making a video were US intelligence supplied $ and instructors to make out somebody military international organization . and then it backfired so bad that you wish "that only nose was bleeding " ... Gonna make some politicians look really bad + most of it still classified .so I don't think it's coming out anytime soon

[@artz5665]

Look at the Rambo part 3 if I'm not mistaken. See how they presenting those afgan rebel fighters, that russian which switch sides.... For people in 90s it Looked right. But if you show it to someone from 2000s especially if they were stationed there ... I would think not so much. So even if they make that kind of movie it probably be so fake I wouldn't want to watch it

[@user-tl4dg1gc2h]

bro , Taliban veteran commanders from both wars are still there alive and well , and every news outlet have someone in kabul even Fox news ! let them make a documentary interviewing them, for example Khalil haqqani was the Mujahddin commander in operation Majistral seen in the video , then the Tank commander at the battle of khost in 92' , he was featured nearly on a dozen channels but all about Women rights and shit of that kind.

[@megaskater815]

Great video as always!

[@Samsun55]

Yes!! That's what i was waiting for quite a time.

[@daspai7588]

Just finished reading A Thousand Splendid Suns. This is exactly what I needed.

[@ericcloud1023]

That book is so very 😭 sad 😭

[@sadiqjaved2457]

That book is propaganda

[@MuhammadUsman-mi4jk]

That book and kite runner are just full of pain

[@barbiquearea]

@@MuhammadUsman-mi4jk Although in Kite Runner the protagonist Amir mostly avoid the horrors of the war as he and his dad flee to the United States when the Soviets invade their country.

[@TheRandCrews]

@@MuhammadUsman-mi4jk I read that book in High school, gave me a good perspective

[@twostepfromkek7548]

My father was serving in the Soviet army at that time. His company was sent to Afghanistan on a special mission. It so happened that he was not taken. A week later, he learned that the entire company had died. I asked him why this war was necessary. Was it worth giving up your life for nothing? He didn't answer...

[@davidalexsebastiank6250]

Because of Leonid Brezhnev's stupid decisions

[@aryanpashtun416]

My Father was an US exchange student at the time and was hired by CIA to escort stinger missiles to mujahideen in Afghanistan.

[@ArmySigs]

@@aryanpashtun416 Wow, he must have some good stories

[@user-sm1rd9cw5x]

À whole company in a week ?!?! Does not sound true

[@UmarFarooq-nl4eq]

@@yousafdaudzai3078 artifical durand line what a joke

[@Aniqabbas]

you always comes with real facts and history of past battles

[@jasonz7788]

Great work Sir thank you

[@Masiba7517]

Watching this while Taliban kills last panjshir resistance

[@fieldmarshalbaltimore1329]

Lol

[@darthvenator2487]

That is the rule of the strong for you.

[@mullahgaming9446]

not fair to compare since the Taliban are also afghan and understand the tactics they use very well

[@SafavidAfsharid3197]

@@mullahgaming9446 pakistani pashtuns*

[@ZhouMama69420]

Pain.

[@tuzked]

Usa: Damn those Afghans beat us Russia: First time?

[@jamescross6109]

The difference is the USSR lost militarily. Whereas the US and the rest of ISAF dominated the battlefield but lost politically.

[@tuzked]

@@jamescross6109 thanks for the info man

[@CA-jz9bm]

@@jamescross6109 USSR did not lose militarily, they left a government that held out militarily for another 2-3 years, Soviets fought a tougher and more numerous enemy that was supported by NATO and killed more of them, US fought a fraction of that with modern technology and with lesser enemy and had a shameful defeat. The casualties YSSR casualties is high because they were fighting themselves while US were using Afghan army who suffered 3 times the casualties that it did under Soviets. Then US shamefully run away.

[@voidwalker9223]

@@CA-jz9bm stop trying to sugar coat it. Taliban was far more ruthless than mujahideen. Why do you think muj lost to taliban in 90s? Taliban is funded by Iran, Pakistan and many others over the past 20 years. American tactics were far superior to USSR. Plus let’s not forget USSR as a whole failed to spread and the entire nation collapsed just 2 years later. You can try To dumb down America all you want but US still was fighting 3 major wars including Libya, Syria and parts of Middle East and Africa. while maintaining its nation and entire global military and bases and carriers all over the world at same time. And guess what….it’s still here. USSR couldn’t even handle 1 war that it was bordering none the less. Good try though.

[@voidwalker9223]

@Abid Rahman because it’s well documented . Do you have any idea how many Russia s committed suicide after Afghanistan and Chechnya? Russia is known for hiding a lot of info trying to get to public. There is a few books of after the fall of USSR and it talked about many suicide rates exploding especially Afghan veterans.

[@TheDavcrz5]

Well done very informative

[@VajrahahaShunyata]

No mention of the stinger and its game changing effect?

[@gauravrao6529]

Amazing video! Looking forward to more 20th century conflicts from the KnG Team!

[@leeboy26]

7:32 -When you're five minutes into Jihad and chill and he gives you this look...

[@thecombatwombat7652]

"You can kill 10 of my men for everyone one of yours but even at that rate you will lose." - Ho Chi Minh "Those are rooky numbers, you gotta pump those up." Mujahideen, probably.

[@the_phen0m639]

Mujahid

[@Matt-rw1qn]

Very cool video. Thanks

[@TheEspada33]

Love your Chanel keep up the great work

[@LotsOfThoughts]

I had no idea the death counts were that high. Makes the US-Afghan war look like a skirmish.

[@kalebloshbough1551]

Us trying to be nice otherwise Afghan would look like hiroshima and nagasaki

[@MuhammadHamza-fi1lb]

@@kalebloshbough1551 nope us can't use nuke here other than nukes us had used every thing from daisy cutters to the biggest non nuclear bomb u lost accept it don't give excuses you horribly lost against farmers with shotguns

[@SavageHenry777]

@@MuhammadHamza-fi1lb Mohammad buddy, the US military didn't lose by any metric. They followed orders and left when ordered to. There was norhing for them to fight for. No military can change the mind and culture of a people. All the Taliban had to do was remain in some form until the US left.

[@MustafaRehman768]

Causalities were always on the Afghan side only few thousand occupiers.

[@MuhammadHamza-fi1lb]

@@SavageHenry777 bro us came with the agenda to destroy taliban that was what Bush declared to eliminate taliban if after 20 yrs taliban are still present who lost then

[@edalder2000]

There is a book called "Charlie Wilson's War" that details how The CIA helped fund The Mujahedeen as well.

[@edalder2000]

@@Halcon_Sierreno True. The movie is "meh." The book is fascinating.

[@jopiaspieder1184]

Payback for Russia helping out the North Vietnamese

[@czechpatriot2230]

@@jopiaspieder1184 Sorry I forgot. Did Vietnamese flew jets into Russian Skyscrapers?

[@jopiaspieder1184]

@@czechpatriot2230 you tell me if they did

[@VeryFamousActor]

@@jopiaspieder1184 Lmao, no, they did not.

[@jl88570]

Excellent video guys. Make videos and for the gulf war please. You do excellent work.

[@mgsxmike]

Why is the Russian so embarrassingly ineffective?

[@rogerout8875]

They keep putting dictators in charge.

[@humanityliberationfront9495]

Can you do one on the United States how they lost Afghanistan 🙃

[@raashidmohammed801]

That would be interesting but i think the battles would be classified

[@takodrua1081]

We didn't lose?? We left...

[@sajibsjb]

@@takodrua1081 aloe vera gell is good for burns you know.

[@blackknightsmedia5410]

@@takodrua1081 loooooool they lost like how they lost Saigon in Vietnam. Taliban are flexing their propaganda how they defeated the US. And flexing their continuation reign, after all major empire falls since Alexander the Great.

[@raashidmohammed801]

@@takodrua1081 Are you guys still using that sorry of an excuse?

[@tafsir5191]

-An unreliable and ineffective national army -A sturdy enemy who sees death as a blessing -Inability to capitalize on hard fought victories -Low local support due to lots of collateral damage. Why does this sound so familiar? :) :)

[@worldwanderer91]

History is like poetry it rhymes

[@idkusernameeggatron4652]

Sounds like Ukraine.

[@opalescencedoll7840]

Great video

[@maxa.9135]

I feel that Brilliant and Skillshare keep the entire KZbin education section floating singlehandedly.

[@BayarArchery]

The visuals in the video are amazing! Not sure when the upgrade occured, but it's beautiful.

[@brokenbridge6316]

Given what recently happened in Afghanistan I'm not surprised this video came out. Nice job. My compliments to all those who made this video a reality.

[@shakilahmedawan1538]

Good effort. Good job done.

[@MartinWastlund]

An incredibly well made and detailed breakdown of the battles fought!

[@BirdPowerHistory]

If only my history teachers from school were as good at explaining events and making them as interesting as you do. Keep up the great work.

[@No_name.0103]

Please make a video on how the DRA fell to the Mujahideen and how the Taliban took over Afghanistan the first time. Maybe even how the Taliban regime collapsed.

[@No_name.0103]

@@TA-hf6si Taliban collapsed in the year 2001. They were recreated after that and eventually, took over the country for a second time.

[@psi_blade200]

@@No_name.0103 US full control only major city Taliban still control in rural area

[@No_name.0103]

@Ibrahim Suleman being told by people or not, I'm aware that the Neo Taliban had huge influence and power over the Southern regions, specially "Kandahar" but all came after the year 2001 where the US and the Northern alliance together collapsed the old Taliban regime. And the main reason for the rise of the Taliban to such great force they are today was corruption within the Afghan government all those 20 years. All the sources I've found and researched suggest that the main reason for the rise of the Taliban was corruption within the government or simply said, corrupt politicians. Anyways, the Taliban rose to power from 20% to 100% as far as I'm aware and all odds were against them back in the years (2001 - 2005) so please don't try to talk me down on this one as well.

[@domxem5551]

Great presentation. You deserve a 500 million subscribers

[@edoedo8686]

Wow, superb tactical overview...

[@boejiden.1445]

Very good. Looking forward to this

[@morbiusenjoyer2847]

Yea another upload from kings and generals love the work you do

[@progressivessuck7995]

Good doco. Thanks.

[@SS-qo3nt]

Bravo!! Well done!!!!

[@kanishksharma5696]

Amazing Video It briefly explains The situation in Afghanistan during that period looking forward to see more modern warfare Videos . Thank you Team Kings and Generals

[@remove_marko]

"Out of commission - become a pillbox Out of ammo - become a bunker Out of time - become heroes" The Beast of War (1988)

[@StelyDn]

I have seen this movie. Great one.

[@yashmohod9380]

Wow Amazing video

[@Bartlomierz]

Dziękujemy.

[@KingsandGenerals]

Thank you for your support!

[@nosorab3]

This is great! Do a video on the British and American Afghan wars too!

[@LifeWithParole]

Thanks for the video! USSR really showed the world how not to withdraw from Afghanistan, thankfully we took this lesson to heart

[@asmitasinha6547]

Yeah the US really took it by heart by running away overnight

[@stacey_1111rh]

@@asmitasinha6547 Yeah Osama learned really well too didnt he

[@sovietheart3883]

The withdrawal waa successful

[@sovietheart3883]

​@@asahitoki3228The soviets could have easily won if they werent forced by the soviet government to leave.

[@Progen1A]

@@sovietheart3883 USSR had lots of political instability, people protested on the streets to withdraw from the war, it made sense to end the war anyways

[@blackwilliams88]

I listened to old Soviet interviews of the war and the mujahedeen were a nightmare to deal with. Imagine a trained soviet army unable to decipher where you are firing from whether cliff, mountain, hill, or house.

[@amazingamx1255]

I wish there was a 10+ hour documentary going into more details of this

[@t-evans]

Sad to think what happened more recently in the Panjshir Valley.

[@muslimking3869]

Nothing happened, taliban fought soviet freed themselves and also they freed themselves from American nato occupation

[@lukemarshall5605]

@@muslimking3869 yeah what about the new northern alliance

[@aqeel-3771]

nothing happening still unconquered they were false videos by the taliban.

[@jaimebendo5053]

Joe biden: "Hold my beer!"

[@eugenequek6797]

prob a tad too soon?

[@medievalist8441]

Probably didn't watch the whole video

[@shmshare3868]

"Hold my .. Ah you know the thing"

[@nicolaspinto76]

Hold my withdrawl

[@KonohasEdge]

George Bush: Hold my six pack.

[@headhunter7052]

thank you

[@zacsamuel7295]

You are the best war channel without equal

[@gideonm.7425]

Great video! There is a russian movie from 2005 called "The 9th Compamy" ("9я Рота"/"Devyataya Rota") that is centered arround this company, during Operation Magistral'.

[@jarosawporanski4288]

In this movie almost all the 9-th Company died in the battle. K&G material shows, that only 6 Soviet soldiers were killed (17:13)...

[@qwellen7521]

Inaccurate. Rambo killed all the Russians, and the mujahideen would always be a grateful ally.

[@thegunner7942]

Nah, then talibans killed rambo😆

[@rainmanhart2809]

This comment is dedicated to the brave mujahideen fighters of afghanistan.

[@waverlh]

Wow. Great content. I'd love to see an update in about 5 years after the US withdrawal. Unfortunately, I doubt much will have changed.

[@uhohhr3tr054]

Great video as always. I'm curious what music is used for the outro? I heard it on a KZbin video years ago and I've been looking for it ever since.

[@workablefloods3465]

Soviets : figting Afganistan over the mountains Americans : fighting Vietnam under the mountains

[@sincitycapital]

Texas has a larger GDP than Russia now and the Soviet union doesn't exist anymore. But yeah keep thinking the "soviets" are better and smarter

[@jo-wv4lc]

@@sincitycapital yeah lost 2 trillion dollars and 3000+ America n soilders killed,then kill inocent civilian people . Usa is creator of isis Al-Qaida's Taliban PKK 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@URANOMNOM]

@@sincitycapital wow what a snowflake you are. Now show me on this doll where the evil communist hurt you

[@barbiquearea]

Hence why for the Soviets, Afghanistan was considered their very own Vietnam.

[@braxtonjones6163]

@@reminder9146 The only former communist state that hasn’t failed is Vietnam.

[@SuperScarface109]

Perfect timing ☺. just finished the soviet chapter which describes the panjshir operations (from operation no. 1 to 9). Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the War Against the Taliban by Stephen Tanner.

[@hoboronin]

Well done

[@albanian-moroccan9184]

Nice video! Can you make a video about the 2 chechen wars? It's very interesting.

[@Theunknownpast_official]

So glad you make a video about this subject 💪🏼

[@daca8395]

Step 1: create and finance paramilitary group to fight against soviets Step 2: allow them to roam uncontroled for 20 years Step 3: destabilise thw region by occupying country for 20 years. Step 4: withdraw from the country after you took everything you could, leaving the group to take over allready destroyed country Great plan, US, great plan...

[@riichobamin7612]

Not to mention: Leave behind billions of dollars worth of military armaments, supplies and other equipments to said militants.

[@user-pb8er8hz9t]

@@riichobamin7612 Military equipment won't help develop or rebuild the country so still US made profit during those 20 years.

[@yessir7147]

@@riichobamin7612 We left behind guns and trucks, you can get those anywhere. We destroyed and took all the important stuff. You need to relax, the Taliban aren’t flying our helicopters around or using our satellites

[@riichobamin7612]

@@user-pb8er8hz9t you missed the point completely 🤦🏻

[@riichobamin7612]

@@yessir7147 bro, "you can get those anywhere" ? They outlived the US invasion and recaptured Afghanistan with less equipment. Now that they have more, they are more dangerous. It doesn't matter even if it can be found anywhere (which I doubt, I don't think any nation is going to officially sell arms and munition to the Taliban govt anytime soon), equipping militants is not good in any sense.

[@jisnudeepdas2961]

Please make a US version too! eagerly waiting for it.. 😄

[@jo-wv4lc]

2 trillion dollars 85 billion dollars weapons 🤣

[@omp2088]

@User Name You shouldnt start a pissing contest on this subject, not after the worst military decisions of the modern human

[@nataliekennedy4646]

That Cold War channel music all ways comes in handy

[@khalid969]

It has always been my understanding that the Soviets started losing the war only when the Americans decided to supply the Mujahideen with surface to air missiles, thus ending their control of the skies. This was also popularised by an American movie suggesting exactly that. However, there was no mention of that in this video, leaving me to wonder whether that was only American propaganda or did Kings and Generals drop the ball on this one.

[@catmate8358]

In part, but reality is always more complex. The USSR collapsed 3 years after the withdrawal from Afghanistan and that was a much more important factor than the CIA arming of the Mujahedeen. After the Soviet withdrawal, the weapons supplied by the CIA were massively put to use by the Afghan warlords to rip the country apart. This in turn gave rise to the Taliban who decided that enough is enough and that order needs to be restored, in which they mostly succeeded, albeit in their own way. The US does not tolerate the non-puppet regimes anywhere and as the Taliban proved difficult to control and bribe, this led to the US attack.

[@NexusWarior211]

That's not even close to true lol, Soviets have had enough of the war long before the first Stinger was ever fired.

[@pyatig]

Charlie Wilson’s war has as much truth as enemy at the gates

[@khalid969]

@@pyatig That's the one I was referring to. And I did check out "Enemy at the gates". The trialer says it is based on a true story lol

[@thegreatest1176]

at the start soviet were struggling then by intoducing heavy air attack they manage to inflict large sum of casualties, then the stinger come which changed that. Its a fact in afghanistan that you need air support if you want to win the war.

[@Someone-ct2ck]

The interesting thing is that the US Supported Afghanistan and they had no problem with them until they figured out that they need to have problems with them.

[@ElVaquero19]

That is so dumb and childish You could say the same about anything China left Hong Kong alone for years, until they didn't

[@justinlabrosse8506]

@@ElVaquero19 they didnt have hong kong till 1997 lol

[@voidwalker9223]

Because the Taliban rose up funded by Pakistan. After Taliban started taking over country in Afghan civil war killing off US allies then Afghanistan became a problem. Has nothing to do with US having problems with Afghan people. This is the problem with social media. No one knows history and just has ignorant opinions.

[@vomErsten]

@@justinlabrosse8506 And then they left Hong Kong mostly alone for 22 years...until they didn't when it became apparent they wouldn't be able to quietly subjugate the city through legislative subversion.

[@landonglenn9214]

PLEASE COVER THE ANGLO-AFGHAN WAR! Such an amazing reiteration in history. It really does repeat (or at least rhyme) with itself.

[@j.dunlop8295]

When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. Kipling, 4-5 wars ago, in Afghanistan!

[@gofar5185]

brutal honesty is what make rudyard kipling great...

[@Mr_M_History]

Hats off to the Afghans. The turn of the century dealt them the worst set of cards! 3 generations now have no knowledge of anything but persistent war...

[@sajibsjb]

It's Afghans

[@sajibsjb]

@Boş İşler MüdürüI don't see the point, so many different aboriginal people live in my country. They have their own tribal names but at the end their passports or ID says they're Bangladeshi and I don't think they have issues with that. Here I was talking about nationality not ethnicity.

[@aravindva1020]

@Boş İşler Müdürü but they are like 40% of population right?

[@DoctorDeath147]

@Boş İşler Müdürü Afghan is a nationality not an ethnicity. One can be a Pashtun, a Tajik, a Hazara, an Uzbek, a Baloch, an Arab, a Kyrgyz, a Nuristani, or a Pamiri but they are still an Afghan by citizenship. There is no Afghan ethnicity so he is correct.

[@pakistanzucks]

@@DoctorDeath147 actually afghan means pashtun but also applys to non Pashtuns its strange but thats how it us

[@tymgamerz]

that bin laden guy sounds like a freedom fighter, i sure hope he wont become a terrorist

[@salahddinebensebane8429]

He is a freedom fighter agents the USSR but a terrorist agents the USA 🙄🙄🙄

[@zainfarooq5248]

Terrorism is the term used by Americans to defame their enemy. Even the same people were funded by the CIA at the time of the soviet war.

[@ironheart5830]

Spoiler he did :D

[@jalal3254]

@@zainfarooq5248 nah he's a terrorist, he is not an afghan and should not be fighting in afghanistan, plus the guy was attacking other countries from afghanistan, as much as i hate the taliban atleast they dont attack other countries

[@zainfarooq5248]

@@jalal3254 If he is a terrorist then bush and blair were also terrorist because they attack other countries from their soil

[@jonapleseid7393]

Holy crap please make more of these about Afghanistan it’s really good

[@daveanderson3805]

The Americans created a monster and afterwards were surprised and confused when it grew beyond their control and turned on them

[@Loewenphilosoph]

Every modern war video, I'm eagerly awaiting the moment the music at 13:00 starts playing. I don't want it is about this particular piece of music, but it really elevates the experience.

[@alexp5461]

Perfect timing, isn't it?

[@zt3gaming796]

I hope he covers the liberation of Panjshir this year too by the Taliban

[@DoctorDeath147]

@@zt3gaming796 Soon: Taliban liberation of the galaxy

[@voidwalker9223]

Uh no I’m sure this video was made because of Americans left Afghan.

[@rainmanhart2809]

@@zt3gaming796 the talichads would be proud.

[@joegambitt7414]

When you said 14.000 casualties I thought how weak and heavy was the war on the soviets, but then those 200.000 casualties wow that really shocked me, soviets were profesional indeed

[@Oreocookie457]

No they werent. They were fighting farmers.

[@olsiontoskaolsiontoska9370]

Yea but in guerrilla warfere body remember

[@olsiontoskaolsiontoska9370]

The usa army in Vietnam the same thing fight the farmers in guerrilla warfere when usa take 54000 casulties and vietkong 182000

[@lape2002]

@@Oreocookie457 Jihadis

[@omgwtf1126]

These farmers have my respect indeed.

[@bikkiikun]

And now imagine Russia losing the same amount of troops (as in 9 years in Afghanistan) within a month...

[@heybabycometobutthead]

Given Russia says 1.5 thousand KIA in Ukraine when real figure is around 18 to 22 thousand, it's safe to assume at least 150 thousand Soviet soldiers got killed in Afghanistan, you really think 15 thousand KIA collapsed the Soviet Union

[@bikkiikun]

@@heybabycometobutthead : Interesting theory... though I'd have to disagree. Just to put it in context: Unlike in Ukraine, in Afghanistan Russia won most battles rather decisively and with comparatively low casualties. It's just that they stayed there for almost 10 years... thus the 15k KIA. And it is surprisingly well documented. Also, let's not forget, that Afghanistan was (for the Russian forces, at least) not an all out war, like Ukraine. In Afghanistan, the fighting was more point based... and "in and out". There was no large scale occupation, the Russians stayed mostly in base. Another major difference was air-superiority (even with all the Stingers).

[@asheer9114]

@Umair LoooooL... nice Kremlin cooked propaganda Wania... 🤦‍♂️ At best Ukrainian Army fielded about 230 000 troops (I seriously don't know from where you get that "million" troops) and about 30% of Ukrainian troops were neutralized in the first week of the fight before they managed to stabilize front around Kiev... So please... DON'T spread Kremlin's idiotic myths and propaganda because you only made from yourself a complete IDIOT.

[@Anonymous-qj3sf]

@@heybabycometobutthead 150,000??? What are you smoking? 😂😂😂

[@ayonhasan9287]

@@heybabycometobutthead 25000+ killed.Russia hasn’t even used It's 1/3 force in Ukraine. Resistance from Ukrainians in compared to Mujahideen and Afghans can't be compared.

[@lakshmibrandrice2198]

Please do a documentary on the Congo conflicts of 20th century

[@alswann2702]

Thompson the Headless Machine Gunner and FAL the Right Hand of Freedom