Cold War
Lecture on the Cold War and How the Afghanistan Experience Helped Bring Down the Soviet Union
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The fourth and final lecture in a series on the Cold War at Darien Library will be presented from 3 to 4 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 19. The subject: How the Soviet sojourn into Afghanistan in 1979 helped to bring down the Soviet Union; and, helped to transform the Cold War. Darien Library’s announcement:
With the Soviet collapse, America was left as the world’s sole Superpower. Afghanistan, though, unleashed militant Islamic Fundamentalism, helping to transform the Cold War.