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Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze: Series 2: The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

13/07/2017

The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

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BBC Radio 4 - Cold War: Stories from the Big Freeze, Series 2, The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

Bridget Kendall on the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan.

Bridget Kendall presents an oral history of the early Cold War. One of the Cold War's most far-reaching proxy wars, whose consequences are still reverberating nearly 40 years later.

Bridget Kendall explores the major turning points in the later decades of the Cold War.

The Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in December 1979 was the start of one of the Cold War's most far-reaching proxy wars, whose consequences are still reverberating nearly 40 years later.

Bridget Kendall hears the stories of three people who served in Afghanistan. 

With Dmitri Fyodorov, Aleksandr Gergel and Vladimir Snegirev.

Readings by Philip Fox, Samuel James and John Norton.

Producer: Martin Williams.

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Bridget Kendall presents an oral history of the early Cold War.

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