1. Russia in Afghanistan
I believe that this conflict was a very important because it was a crucial part of the cold war, and it helped shape the way the world was going to be in the future. Not only did it affect the cold war buy stopping the spread of communism in the Middle East, but it affected the future as well by creating the Mujahedeen, known today as the Taliban. ... Once he took sides with the west and wanted to put more western capitalist ideas into place, the Russians saw that as a threat to their goal of spreading communism in the Middle East. ...
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