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Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Created by rtm on January 30, 2010, 9:02 am.
Categorized under: Teaching Resources - Schools, Other
In December 1979 the Soviet Union sent troops into Afghanistan. Soviet officials stressed that this was on the basis of a request for "help" from the Afghanistan government, and an action designed to "save" the Afghan people from the rule of President Amin. However, observers around the world viewed the events differently and suggested a variety of alternative reasons for possible Soviet intervention in the Afghan Civil War.
The Soviet forces eventually withdrew in 1988, leaving behind them a country which had been anything but "saved". The cartoons in this group show how Western views of the Soviet-Afghan war developed and suggest links to other events of the period such as: detente, the Moscow Olympics, the Lebanon and US-Soviet peace negotiations.
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Published caption: "I see your old treacherous tribal riff-raff, enemies of the British Raj, are now...
Giles; Ronald Carl (1916-1995)
Sunday Express
"Oh push off! This isn't secondary picketing, we're just putting our point of view!"
Nicholas Garland
Daily Telegraph
"The gopak has no fixed pattern of steps. Men competatively improvise steps, high leaps, squattin...
Nicholas Garland
Daily Telegraph
"...When he stands up as pleading, in wavering, man-brute guise, / When he veils the hate and cunnin...
Nicholas Garland
Daily Telegraph
"I've told you! From now on don't call them 'killed and injured', call them 'withdrawals'"
Mac [Stan McMurtry]
Daily Mail
