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John Gaquin wrote:
....The soviets had been invited into Afghanistan by the Afghan government to help control the warring factions, I spent a lot of time working in Afghanistan in 76, 77. That's not quite the way it happened. All that is missing is "claimed they" between "soviets" and "had". But weren't they actually invited ? (after the soviets installed a soviet friendly government ?) What I don't quite understand is that it was often said that the soviets wanted a corridor to be able to ship their oil to a port and sell it to world markets. But afghanistan doesn't give them access to the ocean because of the strip of land that belongs to pakistan that covers the shores shouth of afghanistan. Does this mean that the soviets would have eventually taken that strip of land ? |
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