The US and several other nations tried to rebuild the Belt Road the Soviets did and couldn't.

They probably won't even come and make an excuse.

I don't know much about the Soviet-Afghan war; my history textbook is pretty biased because I'm in the US, but the US definitely fucked up when backing the Mujahideen.

Actually, neither my history textbook or teacher ever mentioned the Mujahideen by name even once, probably for this very reason.

Also, Deng Xioaping was a bitch. He fucked up everything Mao did.

What do you think of Zhou Enlai?

I haven't looked into him enough to give a fully thought out opinion.

I will say, I think he was a little naive and optimistic though.

Since he had this big dream of peace with the west.

What do you think of him?

Don't know enough about him, either.

The Mujahideen was the Iranian King, right?

Are you talking about the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi?

Because that's not the Mujahideen we're referring to.

No, they were "freedom fighters" in Afghanistan when the Soviets came in.

We're referring to the US-backed Mujahideen forces in Afghanistan who pushed back the Soviets @Ditzy Doo

Then the US said oopsy doodles when they turned out to be terrorists.

I kid.

That later became the Taliban?

We knew they would inevitably become terrorists. Yes, they did.

Some of them.

I have a test on everything from 1992-2014 in History tomorrow.

I wasn't sure what was being spoke of. Not sure why I thought Iran.

Some also became Al-Qaeda.

Anyways, I gotta go now. Nice talking to you all.

@Ditzy Doo You were probably thinking about the 1979 coup in Iran which overthrew the US-backed King Mohammad Reza Pahlavi who was installed after the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran which overthrew his father. After that coup, Ayatollah Khomeini took over and after his death 10 years later, the current Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, took over.

That was it?

A lot more happened; but I don't know that much.

Oh, and I forgot to mention - the Anglo-Soviet invasion was a part of WWII

As a result of that invasion, the USSR also took parts of north Iran and said it was part of Azerbaijan.

don't post this even ironically

music is extremely powerful propaganda

Apologies; will remove my filthy propaganda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sh4kz_zhyo

Onwards Comrades

Men angrily yelling in a weird Asian language + machine gunfire + many people yelling in pain....

Sounds much like Cambodia/Kampuchea in the late 70s, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coeH02wg4lE

Oleg Gazmanov - Made in USSR

Pretty epic artist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zHm77FkW3U