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Afghanistan
The Soviet Invasion
Video ... Operation Storm-333: The Secret Soviet Plot To Assassinate The Afghan President
Peter Burgess
Operation Storm-333: The Secret Soviet Plot To Assassinate The Afghan President
20,827 viewsDec 27, 2019
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 144K subscribers
Four decades ago, the Soviet Union launched a secret mission to assassinate the Afghan president and seize control of Kabul. The assault on December 27, 1979, was the bloody opening act to the Soviet-Afghan War that would set the country on a course for decades of conflict.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/operation-sto...