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40 yrs ago today #SovietUnion invaded #Afg. Prof. Hassan Kakar’s book “The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response 1989-92”, pub. by Univ of CA Press, describes da events based on first hand sources. @KakarFoundation will present extracts of da book during coming days as below:
At half past six on the evening of Thursday, 27 December 1979, an explosion occurred in the central part of the general communications system in the city of Kabul. Three days before, the minister of communications of the Soviet Union had been a guest of honor of Afghanistan.
He had been given the chance to see the hub of the communications system for a reason. The purpose of the host government was to obtain technical assistance from the Soviet Union. But the purpose of the minister was to pinpoint the center of the system in order to paralyze...
