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Soviet–Afghan War
People's Democratic Party of AfghanistanOn the 1st of January 1965, twenty-seven men gathered in a house in Kabul to establish the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan.
1980 Summer Olympics boycottThe Western governments first considered boycotting the Moscow 1980 Summer Olympics after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, discussing it at a the 20th of…
Soviet withdrawal from AfghanistanMikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of the Communist Party in March 1985. He decided to seek a withdrawal from Afghanistan by October that same year.
Soviet–Afghan WarIn 1893, British civil servant Mortimer Durand drew a line across the Pamir Mountains that would haunt Afghanistan for over a century.