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“A person who does not learn from history is doomed to repeat it”. This famous quote of historian Santana has immensely pretentious Moscow. The Afghan War of 1979 led to the disintegration of the USSR. However, in the post-cold war era Afghanistan remained no longer imperative for Russia, because Russia was busy in collating its scattered parts. The civil war in Afghanistan which created a Taliban regime in Afghanistan in 1996 left Afghanistan into political chaos. In the post-cold war period Russia remained absent from Afghanistan’s political scenario. In order to fill up this vacuum …read more
Source: Pakistan Today
