https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg Alessandra Palma, Ana Paula Betancourt, Tanya Hernández. en-us 2022-05-27 18:34:37 UTC 2026-01-09 17:05:00 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2202493912 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]]> 2022-05-27 18:49:53 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2202493912 https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2202494444 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. .]]> 2022-05-27 18:50:37 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2202494444 https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2202495082 2022-05-27 18:51:34 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2202495082 https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2202495482 2022-05-27 18:52:10 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2202495482 https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2202495633 2022-05-27 18:52:22 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2202495633 https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2202495810 2022-05-27 18:52:37 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2202495810 https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2202496095 2022-05-27 18:53:03 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2202496095 tanya_hernandez1 https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2202496161 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.]]> 2022-05-27 18:53:10 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2202496161 https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2202496456 2022-05-27 18:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2202496456 https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2202496902  Both the Soviet Union and the United States were involved in Afghanistan, namely through infrastructure building.]]> 2022-05-27 18:54:15 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2202496902 https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2202498159 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.]]> 2022-05-27 18:56:04 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2202498159 alessandra_palma https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2205991857 During that time the militaries and common people relate the situation they were living through songs and videos of the war. ]]> 2022-05-31 12:25:03 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2205991857 tanya_hernandez1 https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2205993302 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.]]> 2022-05-31 12:26:15 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2205993302 tanya_hernandez1 https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2205996691 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.]]> 2022-05-31 12:28:57 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2205996691 tanya_hernandez1 https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2205999580 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.]]> 2022-05-31 12:31:23 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2205999580 tanya_hernandez1 https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2206004030 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.]]> 2022-05-31 12:35:05 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2206004030 tanya_hernandez1 https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2206010574 2022-05-31 12:40:30 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2206010574 alessandra_palma https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2206019017 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.]]> 2022-05-31 12:47:19 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2206019017 alessandra_palma https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2206022516 2022-05-31 12:50:06 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2206022516 alessandra_palma https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2206022788 2022-05-31 12:50:20 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2206022788 alessandra_palma https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2206023180 2022-05-31 12:50:40 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2206023180 alessandra_palma https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2206068259 https://youtu.be/rP7EGGLnQNghttps://youtu.be/D6GRkC8ARvM

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.]]> 2022-05-31 13:22:40 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2206068259 https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2207646201 https://youtu.be/D6GRkC8ARvM]]> 2022-06-01 15:02:48 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2207646201 tanya_hernandez1 https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2207696018 2022-06-01 15:41:05 UTC https://padlet.com/alessandra_palma/86zi5gvnmr9v2cdg/wish/2207696018