Afghanistan. That one was rough. Of, it wasn’t an imperialist invasion the way Western sources usually characterise it. The “Afghan Communist Party” (I forget their actual name) begged for Soviet intervention multiple times before they finally got it. When they did get it, it did not go well for the Afghans or the USSR. Of course it didn’t help that the USA pumped the “brave mujahideen fighters” full of weapons which got a lot of Soviets and set up the material conditions for a bloody civil war which led to the eventual rise of the Taliban. However I think there is plenty of room for some criticism on how the USSR handled that situation.
Afghanistan. That one was rough. Of, it wasn’t an imperialist invasion the way Western sources usually characterise it. The “Afghan Communist Party” (I forget their actual name) begged for Soviet intervention multiple times before they finally got it. When they did get it, it did not go well for the Afghans or the USSR. Of course it didn’t help that the USA pumped the “brave mujahideen fighters” full of weapons which got a lot of Soviets and set up the material conditions for a bloody civil war which led to the eventual rise of the Taliban. However I think there is plenty of room for some criticism on how the USSR handled that situation.