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The US and the Soviet Union sought to gain footholds in Afghanistan, through infrastructure investments and then military intervention. Once they withdrew in the late 1980s, the country entered a civil war, a backdrop to the rise of the Taliban

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Had a major impact on domestic politics in the Soviet Union. One of the key factors in the delegitimization of Communist Party rule. Civil society reacted to the intervention by marginalizing the Afghan veterans. The army was demoralized as a result of being perceived as an invader. .

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The Afghan War swiftly devolved into a stalemate, with over 100,000 Soviet forces holding the cities, bigger towns, and major garrisons, and the mujahideen roaming the countryside with relative freedom. Soviet soldiers used a variety of techniques to try to put down the uprising, but the guerrillas largely evaded their attacks.

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Both the Soviet Union and the United States were involved in Afghanistan, namely through infrastructure building.

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On December 24, 1979, the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978. The Soviets organized a massive military airlift into Kabul, involving an estimated 280 transport aircraft and three divisions of almost 8,500 men each.

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During that time the militaries and common people relate the situation they were living through songs and videos of the war.

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"Afghan, I Will Never Forget You"- Soviet war song

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Opium production has increased dramatically. When the supply of opium and the ideal environment for its production that Afghanistan affords, as well as the enormous wealth that can be gained from it, this is scarcely a tempting proposition.

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The Taliban's grip on the south has likewise been difficult to break. British soldiers have recently sustained heavy fatalities in Kandahar and Helmand provinces, while the Taliban still maintain a stronghold in Herat province.

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The Kremlin's principal priorities were geopolitical calculations. These were ostensibly to dissuade US meddling in the USSR's 'backyard,' to secure a strategically important foothold in Southwest Asia, and, not least, to try to restrain Iran's violent Islamic revolution. The invasion's secondary purpose was to install an ideologically sympathetic regime in the region.

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Another clear role in the choice was socialist ideology's soft power promises, which inclined the Soviet Union to maintain a favorable regime. After all, in the zero-sum battle between the two Cold War superpowers, losing one ally nearly always meant gaining an opponent. However, at this point, a significant historiographical issue develops.

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Many guerrillas were part-time fighters with temporary family obligations, but eventually, "professional" guerrillas emerged, and even, towards the end of the war, large contingents of foreign radical Islamists, paid by various private Islamic organisations, arrived, the so-called "Afghan Arabs", who would form the basis of Al Qaeda.

The Taliban emerged after the withdrawal of Soviet forces following the Cold War.

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Art has been suppressed by the Afghan regime and even more so if the women were the authors of these works, through these works they expressed and transmitted their feelings and it was also a way of showing the world what they were going through.

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Artistas afganos bajo amenaza Talibán, mientras el arte vence en 'Bienalsur Argentina'

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Shamsia Hassani:"La magia del arte es la magia de la vida"