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Explain the issue of the proxy war in afghanistan?What were the roles of the us and ussr during the internal fighting in afghanistan

Explain the issue of the proxy war in afghanistan?What were the roles of the us and ussr during the internal fighting in afghanistan

by Milika Momoyalewa -
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Firstly, the war was derives from the 1978 coup when Afghanistan communist party took power, initiating a series of radical modernisation reforms throughout the country.The Afghanistan was a proxy battleground of the cold war between United States and the Soviet Union.The USSR supported the communist revolutionary groups while the Usa tried to pevent the communist expansion to the other countries.the roles of the US and USSR in the internal fighting was that Ussr invade Afghanistan to supported them fromthe Mujahideen which was backed up by the United States