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In keeping with its previous suppression of rival political factions, the Soviets were likely intending a show of force to prop up the Afghan Communist regime. However, the Afghans decided to fight back and it quickly escalated into a major conflict that continued for 10 years.

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according to a Russian friend, it was not drugs or religion. It was simply that the country was backwards, refused progression, and was easy to invade. The problem? you can never make such people atheists!

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Russia invaded Afghanistan because they wanted to extend their borders, move closer to India, and extend their influences.
to protect its people from higly growing number of terrorists, attacing Russians school and kiling its woman and children

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The Soviets invaded, at least in part, to provide support to the Parcham fraction of the Afghani Communist Party. Until the invasion, the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) and thus the government of Afghanistan had been in the hands of the leaders of the Khalq faction. The Khalq faction had introduced progressive reforms including women's rights, something which the deeply Islamic Afghanis in rural areas did not agree with. The US government aided anti-government rebels in order to provoke Soviet military intervention and thus weaken their power. This idea worked, the Soviets invaded, but they had no victory. It was to the USSR what the Vietnam War is to the US.

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The U.S.S.R. invaded Afghanistan in an attempt to spread Communism (versus Democracy) to the Middle-East; Afghanistan was supposed to have been an easy stepping-stone to the rest of the Middle-East, and without U.S. support (classified at the time - giving Arms and Aid), the Afghani's would have certainly fallen and been annexed by the Soviet Union; thereby giving way to the spread of Communism.

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In support of the Saur Revolution and the Communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan.

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They invaded in hopes of gaining a warm water port. All other ports the soviet union possessed were in the north (arctic).

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