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Kakar History Foundation
@KakarFoundation
An independent, non-profit organization founded in 2015 for promoting academic research and scholarly work related to the history of Afghanistan.
Dec 26, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
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.