Today, we had more presentations, and lots of difficulties getting started. Computers can be a pain sometimes. Well anyway, this is what I got out of today.
Afghanistan; grain production dropped, we had a grain embargo, communist leader Najibullah. five million mines in the country, Al Qaeda and Taliban formed, the invasion was a failure, caused low morale, loss of 15,000 soldiers, 1 million Afghans killed, Soviets; lost hundreds of aircrafts and other machines, president Carter prohibited trade with Soviets, also boycotted the Moscow olympic games, we spent a lot of money supporting the resistance group against Soviets, Taraki and Amin leaders of Afghanistan, Taraki first communist president, Amin killed Taraki by suffocating him, KGB killed Amin; thought he wasn't loyal, people didn't like his ways, KGB is like our CIA
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