Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia · BATTLE SITE ·
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979)
On the Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map as “Kabul”
27 Dec 1979 — Soviet special forces storm the palace and kill Afghanistan’s communist leader Hafizullah Amin, and the 40th Army pours in to install a more pliable one. The Politburo expected a short operation; its troops stayed nine years and about 15,000 of them died.
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- Brezhnev and the Era of Stagnation (chapter 7 of Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia)
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- Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000
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