Afghanistan

Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Pashto: د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوريت, Dari: جمهوری اسلامی افغانستان) , is a country in Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and China in the far northeast. Kabul is the capital city.
==History==
===Pre-Third World War===
Famously known as the "Graveyard of Empires", Afghanistan was unable to be conquered for too long by anyone, including even the famed British Empire.
In 1978 a Communist party supported by the Soviet Union seized control of Afghanistan's government, causing the country to effectively become a puppet state of the Soviet Union, and a part of the communist block of the Cold War. The people of Afghanistan were much against this, and anti-Communist rebellions ensued; this caused the Soviet Union to step in and invade Afghanistan in December 1979.
This Soviet-Afghan war, simply nicknamed as Afghan by the Soviets - in a snicker of history ironically echoing how US soldiers would reminiscent upon the Vietnam War as Nam - took place between 1979 to 1989. Mujahideen of Afghanistan, backed by the United States and other NATO countries, fought against the Red Army, and lost to much humiliation. Among veterans of this war was Yuri Semashkoshov.
===Third World War===
During the first months of the Third World War the Soviet Union was rused by China to try and re-take Afghanistan once more, using the chaos caused by the Third World War to subdue the country and make it their puppet state once more. 
Yuri Semashkoshov, a veteran of Afghan and the entire 127th Machine-Gun Artillery Division of the Red Army were deployed in the town of Baraki Barak. Much to their terror, Mujahideen were already ready and waiting, and overran the Soviets. Yuri nearly escaped certain death at the hands of the Mujahideen and managed to also attack a NATO base nearby.
===After the Third World War===
The brief second "visit" by the Soviets was brushed off by the Mujahideen. The country spiraled into the Afghani Civil War, where Mujahideen fought with the Communist government, who was now on it's own, ultimately leading to the government toppling and the Islamic State of Afghanistan being created in 28 April 1992.
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