How The Afghans Defeated The Soviet Union | Full Hikma History Documentary

The Graveyard of Empires. The rugged and resilient nature of the Afghans was on full display when the Soviet Union invaded the country in 1979. The subsequent resistance shown by the Afghan Mujahideen captivated the imagination of the world. Stretching the Soviet military machine to its limits, the consequences of the war would prove instrumental in shaping geopolitics for the next few decades. In this feature-length documentary, I’ll trace the causes of the war; going as far back as the modernising initiatives of the 1950s. In the process, we’ll be able to understand important questions, such as - how did this conservative and staunchly Islamic society come to be governed by an atheistic-inclined ideology like communism in 1978? And how did an irregular group of guerrilla warriors like the Mujahideen contend with a military superpower like the Soviet Union? Street Food Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/StreetFoodBites Check out Cynical Historian's video on the Global War on Terror: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nwe0ehW2nY FREE NEWSLETTER: https://mailchi.mp/a69f93be6c66/hikma-history-newsletter - Become a Patron for as little as a dollar a month to vote on upcoming and keep the movement going! https://www.patreon.com/user?u=12397811 Massive thank you to our Patreons: Deborah William Tahsin Zaki Sam Barakden Elman Walid Fatima Tristan Edgar Claudius Bilal Rob Kjetil Amin Tasso Deniz Yehoshua Artin Adam Mohammad Areeb Awais Omar Farid Ibrahim Ari Joshua Haseeb Mahmoud Joel CoreBard - Join our social media community: Twitter: https://twitter.com/HikmaHistory Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hikmahistory/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HikmaHistory/ Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hikma... #afghanhistory #afghanistan #documentary Images Used: Zscout370 Françoise Foliot MrPenguin20 Falerístico Hubert Śmietanka Andrey113999 Rob Mieremet / Anefo Mil.ru Ulrich Kohls Erwin Lux Serg!o Fobos92 Marius Arnesen Cleric77 ANBI Paul Dober Lech Ratajski Gerd Eichmann Alexandr Graschenkov RAWA Henrik Hansen Абрамов Андрей Sergey Novikov Todd Huffman Juergen Lumpp Falerístico Erwin Lux Erwin Franzen Cezary Piwowarski Yuryi Abramochkin Yuriy Somov A. Solomonov TheMachineStops (Robert J. Fisch) Mhtoori Hamid Mir Fobos92 MrPenguin20 Music Used: - The beautiful rabab music you hear in the video is Qais Essar. Check out his music at: http://www.therabab.com/ https://qaisessar.com/ https://www.instagram.com/q_essar/ Doug Maxwell - Arabian Nightfall (Sting): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bRzD... Kevin MacLeod - Faceoff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHlo7mkC7c0 Kevin MacLeod - Dark Times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G109VqPpTsQ Huma-Huma - From Russia With Love: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z5rMNH_yTI Ugonna Onyekwe - Turning Slowly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qeKeOv5i4o8 If any of the images or songs are yours, please let me know I will amend them. Please don't report me straight away! Sources: Jason Burke - Al-Qaeda The True Story of Radical Islam Mohammed Hassan Kakar - The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979–1982 Steve Coll - Ghost Wars Tom Carew - Jihad!: The Secret War in Afghanistan Mohammad Yousaf & Mark Adkin - Afghanistan, The Bear Trap Rodric Braithwaite - Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan, 1979-89 0:00 Intro 1:59 Post-WWII Political Modernisation 9:38 Communist Takeover 16:24 Invasion & Early Years 24:00 Foreign Assistance to the Mujahideen 30:54 Mujahideen Leadership 34:42 Conclusion & Aftermath