Thursday this week marks the 23rd anniversary of NATO`s bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which began on March 24, 1999, and lasted 78 days, Serbian media reported.
The European security crisis began in 1999 when US/Nato started to bomb Yugoslavia, and that was then erosion of all foundations of the world order, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov in an interview with Russian Tass.
«Back then, these bombs in addition to killing civilians started destroying the system of international relations. It was exactly then that NATO (and when we say «NATO», we mean «Americans») started to bomb the foundation of the world order, which led to the European security crisis, which we are living through today», the spokesman underscored.
This is exactly in line with what I have said in my recent articles. Putin`s war in Ukraine has many sides. Putin is attacking the European globalists, and globalization is dead.
Peskov pointed out that this crisis primarily involves the European continent. Russia and other states are located, most of which are currently unfriendly towards Moscow. «The very Americans, who instigated all this, they suffer from this crisis much less, we must understand it well», he added.
Serbia was attacked as responsible for the humanitarian catastrophe in Kosovo, and the immediate cause was the events in Racak and the failure of negotiations on Kosovo`s future status in Rambouillet and Paris, according to Novinite.
NATO’s air operation began at 7.45 p.m. on 24 March 1999. Nineteen NATO countries began bombing ships in the Adriatic and four air bases in Italy. First, the air defenses and other Yugoslav military sites in Pristina, Batajnica, Belgrade, Mladenovac, and elsewhere were bombed.
According to the Serbian Ministry of Defense, 2,500 civilians were killed during the NATO airstrike, including 89 children and 1,031 members of the army and police. 6,000 civilians were injured, including 2,700 children and 5,173 soldiers and police, and 25 are still missing.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said last night that there was no justification for NATO aggression in 1999 but that if he had been in Slobodan Milosevic’s place, he would have acted differently, Politika reported.
“In a few days, I would have stopped it, either by resigning or something else. 78 days is too long to cripple a country that had no chance to defend itself and wait for someone else to help us, but we knew that no one would,” Vucic said in an interview with RTV.
The president noted that Russia at the time, led by Boris Yeltsin, was weak. Vucic also pointed out that the one who leads the country must take care of how to save his people.
“I am now looking at the conflict in Eastern Europe and wondering why some people are not thinking well about the consequences”, Vucic said.
Serbian President Aleksander Ucic said in an interview on March 24; «“Now, after 23 years, one can see with clarity how despicable, ill-judged, unlawful and immoral this operation by 19 NATO countries was” and how “ridiculous, even stupid, to hear them now blaming Russia for its so-called aggression against Ukraine”, adding that “the morals, principles, and values they constantly talk about do not exist at all”. Does China have any comments?
Wang Wenbin is a Chinese politician diplomat, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, deputy director of the Foreign Ministry Information Department, and a member of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). He had a speech and said this on CCTV:
«On March 24, 1999, US-led NATO forces blatantly bypassed the UN Security Council and began the 78-day incessant bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, a sovereign country, in grave violation of relevant international conventions and basic norms governing international relations.
In 12,000 strikes, over 10,000 tonnes of explosives were dropped and more than 3,000 missiles fired, targeting everything from medical facilities to ancient cultural relics, residential buildings, and schools.
Thousands of innocent civilians including three Chinese journalists were killed. During the bombing campaign, NATO even used depleted uranium bombs prohibited by international conventions, causing long-term damage to Serbia’s environment and people’s health.
The people of Serbia will not forget NATO’s aggression, nor will the people of China and the rest of the world.
NATO is convening a summit on Ukraine on the 23rd anniversary of its bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. I wonder if the US and other NATO members have asked themselves:
What is the root cause of the Ukraine crisis?
What responsibility should the US and NATO assume?
Before reflecting on their crimes against the people in countries like Serbia, Iraq , and Afghanistan, the US and NATO have neither right nor authority to judge others.
Born out of the Cold War, NATO serves no other purpose than war. It has never contributed to the peace and security of our world and will never do so. All those who truly love peace and are committed to advancing peace will resolutely reject NATO’s continued expansion».
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Putin said he started the war in Ukraine against the neo-Nazis, but nobody is listening to him. MSM is claiming that Putin is using Nazi propaganda to defend the invasion of Ukraine. But, if Putin is right, who are the neo-Nazis, and how many are they?
The war in Ukraine started in 2014, and this is also the year the neo-Nazi group called Azov Battalion was founded by far-right nationalist Andriy Biletsky. In its early days, Azov was a special police company of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Andriy Biletsky, the gang`s leader who became Azov`s commander, once wrote that Ukraine`s mission is to «lead the White Races of the world in a final crusade….. against the Semite-led Untermenschen.»
Andriy Biletsky is now a deputy in Ukraine`s parliament.
Biletsky is also the head of two neo-Nazi political groups, the Patriot of Ukraine and the Social-National Assembly. In August 2014, he was awarded a military decoration, «Order For Courage», by Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, and promoted to lieutenant colonel in the Interior Ministry`s police forces.
Later on, in 2016, veterans of the regiment and members of a non-government organization called the Azov Civil Corps created the political party National Corps.
Azov Battalion is a right-wing extremist, neo-Nazi, a formerly paramilitary unit of the National Guard of Ukraine, based in Mariupol, in the Azov Sea coastal region. Azov initially formed as a volunteer militia in May 2014 and has since been fighting Russian separatist forces in the Donbas War.
It saw its first combat experience recapturing Mariupol from pro-Russian separatists in June 2014. on 12 November 2014, Azov was incorporated into the National Guard of Ukraine, and since then all members have been official soldiers serving in the National Guard.
The Azov Battalion has its roots in a group of ultras of FC Metalist Kharkiv named «Sect 82». «Sect 82» was allied with FC Spartak Moscow ultras. «Sect 82» occupied the Kharkiv Oblast regional administration building in Kharkiv and served as a local «self-defense force.»
Soon after, a company of the Special Tasks Patrol Police called «Eastern Corps» was formed on the basis of «Sect 82». Azov was started as one of the Ukrainian volunteer battalions of the Special Tasks Patrol Police regulated by the Ukrainian Interior Ministry.
Arsen Avakov, the new Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine after the overthrow of the Yanukovich government, issued on April 13, 2014, a decree authorizing the creation of the new paramilitary force from civilians up to 12,000.
The neo-Nazis have infiltrated the Ukrainian government, the police force as well as the military complex system.
In 2014, the Azov Battalion gained attention after allegations of torture and war crimes, as well as neo-Nazi sympathies. The group has also been criticized for use of controversial symbols, as seen in their logo featuring the Wolfsangel, which is one of the Nazi symbols used by the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich.
Since 2014, Azov Battalion has killed more than 14,000 innocent people. Many of them are tortured, while others are burned alive. This is probably why Putin has had enough. This is a war crime, but on Sunday, Ukraine`s Zelenskyy says Russia`s siege of Mariupol, which is Azov`s headquarters, involved war crimes.
Zelenskyy also says Russia`s siege of the port city is «a terror that will be remembered for centuries to come».
The fall of Mariupol would mark a major battlefield advance for the Russians in the biggest land invasion in Europe since World War II. The Russian siege in Azov`s headquarter, Mariupol can be the end of the war, as Moscow sets Mariupol’s surrender deadline.
Ukraine has until 5am Moscow time (02:00 GMT on Monday) to respond to an offer on laying down arms and humanitarian corridors, Russa says. President Zelenskyy has told CNN that negotiations are the only way to «end this war».
The city Mariupol is destroyed and it is wiped off the face of the earth, Mariupol police officer Michail Vershnin said in a video to Western leaders on Sunday.
Estimates of Russian deaths vary widely, but even conservative figures are in the low thousands. Russia had 64 deaths in five days of fighting during its 2008 war with Georgia. It lost about 15,000 in Afghanistan over 10 years, and more than 11,000 in years of fighting in Chechnya, according to Aljazeera.
Alex Rubinstein tweeted a few days ago: «Watch Yevhen Karas the leader of Ukraine`s neo-Nazi terror gang C14`s speech from Kyiv earlier this month. Straight from the horses’ mouth, he dispels the many narratives pushed by the left, the mainstream media, and the State Department. Karas said: «We were now been given so much weaponry, not because as some say: «west is helping us. Not because they want the best for us, but because we perform the tasks set by the West because we are the only ones who are ready to do them because we have fun, we have fun killing and we have fun fighting, and that is the reason for the new alliance; Turkey, Poland, Britain, and Ukraine».
Mr. Karas also said they Ukraine doesn`t want to join the EU. «No, we are a huge powerful state, and if we come to power it will be both joy and problems for the whole world. Being part of a European family has already collapsed. This is about a new political alliance on the global level. A new political challenge».
We know from MSM that many people around the world are helping the neo-Nazis in Ukraine in the war against Russia. Many of them come from Scandinavia and especially from Sweden, but are countries around the world helping the neo-Nazis?
A provision in Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018, passed by the United States Congress, blocked military aid to Azov on the grounds of its white supremacist ideology, in 2015, a similar ban on aid to the group had been overturned by Congress.
Mr. Karas also said that Maidan was a coup and that Maidan was the victory of the nationalist ideas. The neo-Nazis aren`t many members, but their influence is huge. That`s why they succeeded in the Maidan coup.
C14 signed an agreement with Kyiv`s city government to patrol its streets in early 2018. months later it began a campaign of pogroms against Romani camps.
We see a lot of propaganda from many sides, but according to Nation, five years ago, Ukraine`s Maidan uprising ousted President Viktor Yanukovych, to the cheers and support of the West. Politicians and analysts in the United States and Europe not only celebrated the uprising as a triumph of DEMOCRACY but denied reports of Maidan`s ultranationalism, smearing those who warned about the dark side of the uprising as Moscow puppets and USEFUL IDIOTS. Freedom was on the march in Ukraine, and the Nazis were waiving the swastica flag in the name of democracy.
Today, increasing reports of far-right violence, ultranationalism, and erosion of basic freedoms are giving the lie to the West`s initial euphoria. There are neo-Nazi pogroms against Roma, rampant attacks on feminists and LGBT groups, blood bans, and state-sponsored glorification of Nazi collaborators.
Post-Maidan Ukraine is the world`s only nation to have a neo-Nazi formation in its armed forces. The Azov Battalion was initially formed out of the neo-Nazi gang Patriot of Ukraine.
Azov Battalion took control over Mariupol in 2014, but as of Sunday 21 March, the Russian army took it back. Zelenskyy says he is ready for negotiations with Putin, but if they fail «that could mean that this is a third world war.»
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The war in Ukraine could have ended a long time ago. Putin has been giving Zelenskyy a great solution to the problems they have, but Zelenskyy rejected it. The reason is that the neo-Nazis are threatened to kill Zelenskyy if he signs a peace deal with Putin and Russia.
First of all I must say that many deep thinkers have predicted the war a long time ago, and believe it or not, President Joe Biden is one of them. He predicted the war in Ukraine 25 years ago. Henry Kissinger also warned on several occasions that NATO expansion would create tensions between Russia and the US as well as Russia and the rest of western Europe.
Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state of the United States, while writing for the Wall Street Journal in 2014 following the annexation of Crimea pointed out that Ukraine cannot act as an outpost for either party but rather should act as a bridge between the West and Russia.
Ukraine is an inalienable part of Russia`s history and identity. «To treat Ukraine as part of an East-West confrontation would scuttle for decades any prospect to bring Russia and the West, especially Russia and Europe, into a cooperative international system,» Kissinger wrote for the Wall Street Journal.
The most important thing, in this case, is NATO`s Final Declaration Bucharest Summit on April 3, 2008, that says; «NATO welcomes Ukraine`s and Georgia`s Euro Atlantic aspirations for membership in NATO. We agreed today that these countries will become members of NATO.»
This is the deep cause: The aim of the United States and its European allies is to peel Ukraine away from the Soviet orbit and incorporate it into the West.
Jack Matlock said last month that NATO expansion would trigger an arms race. Matlock highlighted that the Soviet collapse was not because of western pressure but due to internal issues which led to its fall. He called the expansion of NATO a strategic blunder.
Naom Chomsky talked about Ukraine a year ago and said that the takeover of eastern Cuba is much worse than the situation in Ukraine today. But I`m not gonna talk about Cuba today. It`s all about Ukraine. Chomsky mentioned leading international relations specialist, John Mearsheimer who wrote an article in the main establishment journal foreign affairs with this headline;
THE WEST IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE UKRAINE CRISIS.
What Mearsheimer points out in his article is in 1990, when the Russian Empire collapsed. The question was about how should the post-war system develop? Gorbachev made a remarkable concession. He agreed to allow unified Germany to join a Western military alliance. If you think about history, that`s pretty astonishing, because Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia a couple of times in the century.
He was saying that a unified militarized Germany can join a hostile military alliance. There was a «quid pro quo.» A condition that NATO would not move phrase was one inch to the east. That meant East Germany.
But what did they do? NATO immediately moved to East Germany. Gorbachev was pretty upset, but he was informed by president Bush and James Baker, that this was just a verbal agreement. There was nothing on paper. The implication is if you`re dumb enough to accept the verbal gentleman`s agreement with the United States, that`s your problem.
Then Clinton came in, and NATO moved further towards the right to the border of Russia. But the big question is rather; why does NATO even exist after 1990 throughout the whole history of the cold war?
They say NATO is necessary to defend Western Europe from the Russian hordes. But what happens to NATO? It explodes. It expands to the east. Its mission changed. Its official mission now is not to defend Europe from the Russian hordes.
It`s to control the global energy system. Sea lanes and pipelines, and to serve as a US-run intervention force. We can all ask ourselves; «What was the nature of the propaganda we were fed all those years?»
If NATO was there to defend the west from the Russians, why is it now expanding the right to the borders of Russia, becoming a global and US intervention force protecting sea lanes and pipelines, and so on.
What that talk about the Cold war was just a pure lie, and there`s plenty more evidence for that.
Noam Chomsky said seven years ago that after a dangerous proxy war, keeping Ukraine Neutral offers a path to peace with Russia. So did John Mearsheimer. But who is listening? MSM? Nope. You never see people like this on MSM.
Mearsheimer said that Ukraine and NATO would be a security threat to Russia. But he said that many years ago. You all knew it. Deep thinkers told you all about it. The solution is a Neutral Ukraine.
Putin offered Zelenskyy that solution. A Neutral Ukraine, which is a buffer state between NATO and Russia, but Zelenskyy rejected it. Why? It`s probably the neo-Nazis. They will kill him if he agrees with Putin.
In 2013, Putin wanted an Economic Rescue Plan for Ukraine with Russia, the IMF, and the EU, but the EU said no foolishly.
The real losers in this war are the Ukrainians. Ukrainians are led down the primrose path. NATO has pushed very hard to encourage the Ukrainians to be part of NATO. They are pushed to be a western bulwark on Russia`s borders. Despite the fact that the Russians made it clear that this was unacceptable to them.
What the West did is to take a stick and poke the bear in the eye. And if you do that, that bear is not going to smile and laugh at what you`re doing. That bear is probably going to fight back, and that`s exactly what`s happening here. And that bear is going to tear apart Ukraine. That bear is in the process of tearing apart Ukraine.
So, who is responsible for all this? Russia? Of course not. The Russians are doing the dirty work. What caused the Russians to do this? According to John Mearsheimer, the answer is very simple; The United States of America.
Putin and Russia have repeatedly said that Georgia and Ukraine will never become part of NATO. In August 2008, you had a war involving the Russians and the Georgians over the whole issue of whether or not Georgia would become part of NATO.
The plan is to turn Ukraine into a pro-western liberal democracy, and it started with the Orange revolution in 2014. They want Ukraine to be a part of the West while sitting on Russia`s border. The crisis in Ukraine started on February 22, 2014, and that was a coup, supported by the United States.
The Revolution of Dignity is also known as the Maidan Revolution. It took place in Ukraine in February 2014 at the end of the Euromaidan protests in Kyiv.
It resulted in a pro-Russian leader; president Yanukovych, being overthrown and being replaced by a pro-American prime minister. The Russians found this intolerable. At the same time, they were debating with the West and the Ukrainians over EU expansion, and always in the background at that time was NATO expansion.
A civil war started in Ukraine in 2014, and this is also where the neo-Nazis are starting to grow. In 2017, President Trump decided to arm the Ukrainians. They also got training help. It also formed closer diplomatic ties with the Ukrainians. That spooked the Russians.
MSM is telling us all that Putin is the main cause of the war in Ukraine. They say Putin is crazy and irrational. Putin is bent on creating a greater Russia. Putin is a new Hitler, they say. I must say that it`s hard to believe that serious people can say things like that. It`s ridiculous.
They also say that Putin is an aggressor. He is expanding. He is trying to build a new USSR. I don`t understand how serious people can say things like that. It`s all nonsense. Russia doesn`t have enough resources to do that. Nor do they have money to expand. It`s deceit. A lie. they turn things upside down. Who acts like USSR? Russia? Of course not.
So, what we see here is NATO expansion. EU expansion. Promoting democracy. Is this war vital to the US? No. Is this war vital to Russia? Absolutely yes.
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The conflict between Russia and Ukraine is a complex crisis, but the answer lies in history. Who knows that Kiyv once was more powerful than Moscow? It was also a time when Ukraine and America were adversaries.
Neanderthal settlement in Ukraine is also seen in the Moldova archaeological sites (43,000 – 45,000 BC) which includes a dwelling constructed from mammoth bones. The territory is also considered to be the likely location for the human domestication of the horse.
So, there is no doubt that Ukraine is something special. But what is it? Alexandr Solzhenitsyn criticized the Allies for not opening a new front against Nazi Germany in the west earlier in World War II. This resulted in Soviet domination and control of the nations of Eastern Europe.
Solzhenitsyn claimed the Western democracies apparently cared little about how many died in the East, as long as they could end the war quickly and painlessly for themselves in the West. In 1978, he called the United States «Dechristianized» and mired boorish consumerism. Wow, that`s a long time ago, and we have the same going on even today.
He also accused the Western news media of left-wing bias (Wow! Really?), of violating the privacy of celebrities, and of filling up the «immortal souls» of their readers with celebrity gossip and other «vain talk».
He also said that the West erred in thinking that the whole world should embrace this as a model. While faulting Soviet society for rejecting basic human rights and the rule of law, he also critiqued the West for being too legalistic.
«A society which is based on the letter of the law and never reaches any higher is taking very scarce advantage of the high level of human possibilities.»
Solzhenitsyn also argued that the West erred in «denying (Russian culture`s) autonomous character and therefore never understood it».
Solzhenitsyn was also critical of NATO`s eastward expansion towards Russia`s borders. In 2006, Solzhenitsyn accused NATO of trying to bring Russia under its control; he claimed this was visible because of its «ideological support for the «color revolutions» and the paradoxical forcing of North Atlantic interests on Central Asia».
(Worldwide media use the term color revolution to describe various protest movements and accompanying attempted or successful change of governments that took place in several countries such as former Soviet Union. Russia, China, and Vietnam share the view that color revolutions are the «product of machinations by the U.S and other Western powers» and pose a vital threat to their public and national security).
In a 2006 interview with Der Spiegel, he stated «This was especially painful in the case of Ukraine, a country whose closeness to Russia is defined by literally millions of family ties among our peoples, relatives living on different sides of the national border. At one fell stroke, these families could be torn apart by a new dividing line, the border of a military bloc.»
He gave a speech in Washington D.C, on 30 June 1975 in which he mentioned how the system created by the Bolsheviks in 1917 caused dozens of problems in the Soviet Union. He described how this system was responsible for the Holodomor.
It was a system that, in time of peace, artificially created a famine, causing 6 million people to die in Ukraine in 1932 and 1933. He added: «they died on the very edge of Europe. And Europe didn`t even notice it. The world didn`t even notice it! 6 million people»
In 2008, he said that, while the famine in Ukraine was both artificial and caused by the state, it was no different than the Russian famine of 1921. he expressed the belief that both famines were caused by the systematic armed robbery of the harvests from both Russian and Ukrainian peasants by Bolshevik units, which were under orders from the Politburo to bring back food for the starving urban population centers while refusing for ideological reasons to permit any private sale of food supplies in the cities or to give any payment to the peasants in return for the food that was seized.
Solzhenitsyn further alleged that the theory that the Holodomor was a genocide that only victimized the Ukrainian people was created decades later by believers in an anti-Russian form of extreme Ukrainian nationalism.
He also cautioned that the ultranationalist’s claims risked being accepted without question in the West due to widespread ignorance and misunderstanding thereof both Russian and Ukrainian history.
The Holodomor means; «to kill by starvation».
It is also known as the Terror-famine, or the Great Famine, which was a famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The term Holodomor emphasizes the famine`s man-made and allegedly intentional aspects such as rejection of outside aid, confiscation of all household foodstuffs, and restriction of population movement.
As part of the wider Soviet famine which affected the major grain-producing areas of the country, millions of inhabitants of Ukraine, the majority of whom were ethnic Ukrainians, died of starvation in a peacetime catastrophe unprecedented in the history of Ukraine.
Since 2006, the Holodomor has been recognized by Ukraine and 15 other countries as a genocide of the Ukrainian people carried out by the Soviet government.
Whether the Holodomor was genocide is still the subject of academic debate, as are the causes of the famine and intentionality of the deaths. Some scholars believe that the famine was planned by Joseph Stalin to eliminate a Ukrainian independence movement. Others suggest that the man-made famine was a consequence of Soviet industrialization.
According to Elazar Barkan, Elizabeth A. Cole, and Kai Stuve, there is a competition among victims in constructing a «Ukrainian Holocaust», stating that since the 1990`s Holodomor has been adopted by anti-communists due to its similarity to the Holocaust in an attempt to promote the narrative that the Soviet Communists killed 10 million Ukrainians, while the Nazis only killed 6 million Jews.
They stated that Holodomor was «introduced and popularized by the Ukrainian diaspora in North America before Ukraine became independent» and that «the term «Holocaust» is not explained at all.»
According to them, this has been used to create a «victimized national narrative» and «compete with the Jewish narrative in order to obscure the «dark sides» of Ukraine`s national history and to counter accusations that their fathers collaborated with the Germans.
Holodomor translated from Ukrainian means «death by hunger», «killing by hunger», «killing by starvation», or sometimes «murder by hunger or starvation.»
It is a compound of the Ukrainian holod, «hunger», and mor, «plague». The expression moryty holodom means «to inflict death by hunger.»
The Ukrainian verb moryty means «to poison, to drive to exhaustion, or to torment.» The perfective form of moryty is zamoity, «kill or drive to death by hunger, exhausting work.»
In English, the Holodomor has also been referred to as the artificial famine, famine-genocide, terror famine, and terror-genocide.
Holodomor is now an entry in the modern, two-volume dictionary of the Ukrainian language, published in 2004, described as «artificial by hunger, organized on a vast scale by a criminal regime against a country`s population.
On 24 February, EU leaders met at a special summit convened following Russia`s aggression against Ukraine. They agreed on further sanctions against Russia that target; the financial sector, the energy, and transport sectors, dual-use goods, export control and export financing, visa policy, and additional sanctions against Russian individuals.
Like Trudeau in Canada, the EU will freeze Russian assets and probably cut off SWIFT for now.
There is no doubt that ordinary innocent people will be attacked and suffer, and in the long run, we`re talking about starvation. Or «killing by starvation.» Is this Holodomor 2,0?
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Afghanistan is a beautiful country, and only a few decades ago, people in Kabul were singing and dancing to live music and had fun. Kabul was probably much better than European countries. So, what in the world went wrong in Afghanistan?
Afghanistan had cinemas, restaurants and hotels, and people who lived in Kabul four decades ago describes it as romantic and better than Europe. They have high mountains and the weather is often sunny. It`s one of the best countries in Asia.
But something happened. Someone took the country.
In the 1960`s the King and the Queen opened up the country to the world after centuries of isolation. They also enabled women to partisipate in public life. They became feminists without even knowing what it was all about.
In 1964, according to the constitution, women also got the right to wote. Everything was fine and there was no segregation between men and women. Kabul was a modern city. People were dressed like Western people. They were listening to Western music and thought the Western style was the right thing for them.
People were poor but very happy, but then a lot of tourists came in to Kabul. And suddenly, it was time for a «hippy» era. Just like the West. Hippy music. Hippy fitness. A hippy style society. Tourists went to historical places to see Buddah.
But then, something happened.
A Western-style protest movement started in Afghanistan. Students began talking about Revolution. They talked about Communism and women`s rights. They said it should be more equality between men and women. Nor should it be discrimination.
Kabul became more and more like the Western world, but some people didn`t like that. And that was people in Pedesaan were 80 percent of the population live. Afghanistan had a conflict going on.
Pedesaan was way ahead of the modern city Kabul, and people didn`t like the changes. People in Pedesaan was more conservative and people were following tribal traditions and the teachings of Islam.
Women were isolated and could be forced to mirrage with someone they didn`t love. The Muslims were worried about the progress in Kabul. The problem at that time is that people were sleeping. They didn`t see the real problem. And the problem was their own «class difference.»
In the early 70`s, the first Islamic organisation was founded. Their goal was to protect their traditional lifestyle. It was the birth of the political Islamism in Afghanistan. This is the era were people in Afghanistan became divided in two groups.
Left and Right.
Communists on the left side, and Islamists on the right side.
The Islamist movement were blaming Communists, and Communists were blaming Islamists and the problems escalated. No one were able to guide the people and a blamegame started istead of keeping the great value of national unity among the people.
To everybody`s surprise; the communists managed to take power. First in 1973. It was a coup and they overthrow the monarchy. And now, the country became a republic with its first ever president.
Mohammed Daoud Khan became a President of Afghanistan from 1973 to 1978. Mohammed was a cusine of the former King, but in 1978, the communists desided that their time has come and seized power for themselves.
In just one night, they killed Daoud Khan and 23 members of his family. The communists called the bloody take over «april revolution.» (this is the same mindset as the Leninist communist in Soviet when they killed the Romanov family in their communist revolution).
The communist party coup took place in Kabul on April 28, 1978.
The new government tried to form the country into a new communist country thru radical reforms. People in Kabul had red flags and the communists took all oppositions. The communists first target were Muslims. (this is similar to the CCP today).
The communists arrested you if you were praying. You would also go to jail. This time was the most brutal time of the history of the country. Thousands of people was taken and all of the disappeared.
The communists took teachers that talked about religion. Many of them were dropped by a plane. Isamic activists started to build activist groups in 1979 and one of them was a group called Mujahideen (fighters of the holy was).
This revolution is an Islamic revolution, Islamist Party Leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar said. Their goal was to establish a pure Islamic system in Afghanistan. Freedom and liberation of Afghanistan.
In Moscow, former Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev was worried. Afghanistan was a nabouring communist state, and a successful Islamic revolution could send a dangerous message to the 50 million Muslims in the USSR.
Brezhnev dicided to send in troops in December 27, 1979. and that was the beginning of a long and expensive war that led to bankruptsy.
10,000 prisoners were released in one day. For some it was hard to find back to their own family members. Afghanistan was under forign occupation.
Afghanistan changed like never before. People were leaving because it was not their country anymore. Others were chanting «allahu akbar» at night, and thousands were protesting on the streets.
The Communists in Soviet Union supported the brutal communist regime in Afghanistan and that wasn`t music for the people. The resistance among the people were growing and they distrubuted papers at night and wrote on the walls; Long live Islam.
In the United States, they were quick to react to the Soviet offensive.
Afghanistan became the new epicenter of the Cold War.
US President Jimmy Carter said in a speech that the Soviet invation was an extremely threat to peace. Carter also said that Soviet now can control much of the world`s oil supply.
Washington started to support Mujahideen with money and weapons.
US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brezezinski appeared to Afghanistan`s religion pride in 1980 when he visited Pakistan. One day, he said, you will take your country back because God is on your side.
The communists had big problems to fight back against the Mujahideen guerillas. The only place the communist had control was in Kabul. The communist government said no to women education. No freedom for women. So, women was used as a political tool. But people didn`t like it at all.
The Mujahdin used terrorist attacks in Kabul to destabilise the society. It was too dangerous to be there, so 3 million went to Pakistan or Iran to join their Muslim brothers. Peshawar near Islamabad in Pakistan became a hotspot of resistance.
They got the weapons they needed in Pakistan. And a Sudi also set up a camp there. His name was Osama Bin Laden. He recruited and supported all foriegn fighters from all over the Arab world to join the Afghan jihad. Radical Islam spread in the refugee camp. They started to brainwash the children and they are the one who became Taliban.
The countries that were involved trained conservative people and made monsters to get rid of the USSR. But the biggest problems was to know who the civilians and who the enemies was.
The war in Afghanistan was very expensive for the USSR, and in 1986, Mikhail Gorbachev desiced to withraw his troops. He said; «Counterrevolution and imperialism have turned Afghanistan into a bleeding wound.
We should like, in the nearest future, to withdraw the Soviet troops stationed in Afghanistan.» They took the troops out of Afghanistan in 1989.
People in Afghanistan were so happy. Finally, the USSR are going back home. And the people was feeling free. They won the war.
But, a lot of things happened. It wasn`t over.
The communist government still had control over Kabul, and was the final obstacle to become an Islamic republic. In other words; the war was not yet over. On April 24, 1992, The Mujahideen took control over Kabul.
It was a critical moment were the Mujahideen took over the presidential palace. The dream to become an independent Isamist state was on the way to be fulfilled. But instead, other groups of people started to fight against each other to take back the control. A new civil war started. Everybody was fighting against everybody.
Instead of confronting each other, they used civil women and child as tools in a brutal war. The fighters could have killed each other but they killed civilans instead.
Now, Kabul was stigmatized. Isolated from the rest of the world. Deserted by Westerners. The British embassy was closed. The US embassy was closed. The French embassy was also closed.
«My feeling is that the UN and the Western powers were interested in Afghanistan as long as we fought against the USSR. Against communism. It was a common enemy. Then their interest completely disappeared. They abandoned us,» Mujahideen Commander Ahmad Shah Massoud said back then.
Many different groups of people were fighting against each other but nobody knew why they were fighting. It`s between commanders they said. They attacked civilians and especially woman. They raped them and cut of their breasts.
In 1994, a new force emerged; The Taliban. An Arabic name for «students.» many of them came from Quran-schools. The Taliban promised to restore peace, order and morality. They had massive support from Pakistan. Many of them were grown up in refugee camps in Pakistan.
When Taliban came, they were welcomed by the people in Afghanistan. Finally, someone who wants to restore peace, order and morality. People thought that Taliban will take over the country and everything will be fine again. People supported them.
The Taliban took Kabul on September 27, 1996.
The Taliban changed Afghanistan repidly. The banned alcohol, films and all forms for entertainment. They smashed all Televisions on the streets. The Taliban ended the civil war and made peace.
But, they also took people`s freedom. What is peace without freedom?
Women suffered the most. They were fobidden to study or work. Girls were banned from school. They closed all the schools after the Islamic revolution. It was very sad for the kids, because the couldn`t learn to read and write.
The Taliban send people to the mosque and ban people from going out because these all are Islamic laws. They hunted all the women in Afghanistan. Why are you doing this? Why are you doing that? And so on. If someone say it is extremist, so be it, Taliban said.
Afghanistan became a hotpad for Islamic fundamentalism and it was under the Taliban protection that Osama Bin Laden returned to the country after a long war against the USSR. Osama Bin Laden founded the terrorist network Al-Qaeda to carry out a global jihad.
One of the attacks is said to be September 11. President Bush started a new war in Afghanistan. A few weeks after the attack on twin towers, the British and US soldiers attacked Al Quada leaders and their training camps.
The end of the Taliban regime ended on November 13, 2001.
People in Afghanistan was happy. Now, they are free. Taliban is gone and the United States will bring peace and freedom to Kabul and Afghanistan. Finally. People could go back to school again. Women could start to work again. They were free.
On a NATO command, 52 countries were placed in Afghanistan and in 2003, people voted for a new government. They tried to establish a new democracy. They were working hard to develop a new constitution.
December 17, 2003 – Constitutional Convention.
Millions of dollars were sent to Afghanistan to rebuild the country and establish a new democracy. But the money came into the pockets of the war lords who had, once again, returned to power. Rich people built supermarkets and houses like the one in Europe. Poor people remained poor.
Corruption started to emerge and new conflicts was rising. Corruption to access education, health care, jobs and justice. That alone has huge impact on the election and the politics.
Taliban recruited new members and prepared a new comeback. Despite the escalating violence, 2014 saw the withdrawal of most international coalition troops. Many aid organizations likewise left the country.
In February 2020, the US signed a peace agreement with the Taliban and announced the complete withdrawl of its troops within 14 months. But the Taliban have subsequently taken advantage of the resulting vacuum and the fragility of Afghan democracy to overrun the country.
The future and security of Afghanistan and its women is once again in jeoparady.
In August 2021, the Taliban overruns nearly all major Afghan cities in just 10 days. On 15 August, they enter Kabul. The Afghan government hands over power to the Taliban.
Afghanistan is the land of endless wars. They fought against Alexander the Great, Djengis Khan and Britain. Now, they are fighting against Taliban. 80 percent of the population is depressed. They have lost their hope and dreams. Does it stop here, and what is the next chapter?
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