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How did the geography & culture of Afghanistan help cause failure of the Soviet invasion?
I'm review an essay on why the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was a failure to a great extent. Can you please tell me if my first paragraph on the geography and culture of Afghanistan is adept? Critique is good & you can correct it if you really want to.
The unique geography and culture of Afghanistan caused many difficulties for Soviet troops because it was not the standard of battleground that they were used to. The country of Afghanistan is made up of nearly impassable mountains and desert terrain. It was to the nth degree difficult for Soviet troops to get their heavy artillery over the mountains and through the rough terrain. Their heavy equipment, such as engagement tanks, could not stand the unfamiliar, unbearably hot weather. Thus, they moved very slowly and were ineffective. This gave Afghan soldiers an asset because they were experts in their own terrain. It was very easy for Afghan soldiers to pick up the sound of Soviet soldiers that were able to go the mountains. The Soviet war policy was self-deprecating because it stressed centralized frontal attacks with large units. Monumental units of soldiers were heard very clearly by the enemy when advancing on the rough ground. Soviet Soldiers had even more of a disservice since they were trained to operate inside of their armored vehicles, and simply weren’t taught to fight face of the vehicles. This was extremely inconvenient in Afghanistan since the roads were not paved, and vehicles could barely navigate anywhere. The Afghan soldiers were inadequate drivers when presented with the unfamiliar demographics of Afghanistan. Unlike the Soviets, the Afghan soldiers operated on foot and on horses. Horses could very likely navigate throughout the treacherous hills, allowing Afghan troops to shoot down at the Soviets from unreachable locations. While on foot, Afghan soldiers would sneak up in insignificant groups on the Soviets while they were unprepared to defend themselves, with aid from infantry patrols. The Soviet army was not familiar with the use of infantry patrols, which were adapted to extensively with Afghan soldiers. Another, even more important tactic used by Afghan soldiers was guerilla warfare. Guerilla warfare stemmed from the one of a kind culture that exists in Afghanistan, as a result of the distinctive geography. Due to the physical divisions, the people are extremely uncultured, with more loyalty to their specific clan or ethnic group than to a government or a country. They are also Muslims, and extremely God-fearing and conservative. The major ethnic group is the Pashtun, but there are over ten minority groups. There is not one large group of soldiers, but rather multiple, very steadfast groups of soldiers. The Soviets brought in over one hundred thousand soldiers, secured Kabul quickly and installed Babrak Karmal as their string puppet leader. However, they were met with fierce resistance when they ventured out of their strongholds into the countryside. Resistance fighters, called Mujahedeen, saw the Christian or atheist Soviets controlling Afghanistan as a defilement of Islam as well as of their stock culture. Proclaiming a "jihad"(holy war), they gained the support of the Islamic world. Using available guerilla tactics, Soviet soldiers would attack or raid quickly, then disappear into the mountains, causing fast destruction without pitched battles. Sometimes they would even use man-made tunnels to their advantage, rising out of the ground at the utmost unexpected times. There was no one redoubtable central stronghold from which resistance operated, which lead to loyal groups of soldiers that strongly defended all areas of their homeland. The fighters used weapons that they could take from the Soviets or were given by the US. Decentralized and scattered around Afghanistan.
I commend you if you absolutely read this whole thing. I didn't realize how long it was, worry.
It is fair good but a bit too long to be one paragraph don't you think? It also depends what this first paragraph is about. If it is an essay your writing about then you really didn't another completely the reader in much in the beginning. You just went straight to the point. Also the length of the paragraph really doesn't nick when finding the thesis. Although your first sentence pretty much sums up what your talking about. It is good, but try to make this into 2 paragraphs and around up with an introductory paragraph because it seems you have the rest. I recommend you keep things like they are but start your essay off with the previously mentioned elementary paragraph.
maybe this can help
http://homeworktips.about.com/od/paperassignments/a/introsentence.htm
It is pretty complete but a bit too long to be one paragraph don't you think? It also depends what this first paragraph is about. If it is an essay your writing about then you really didn't clasp the reader in much in the beginning. You just went straight to the point. Also the length of the paragraph really doesn't helper when finding the thesis. Although your first sentence pretty much sums up what your talking about. It is good, but try to make this into 2 paragraphs and fly at up with an introductory paragraph because it seems you have the rest. I recommend you keep things like they are but start your essay off with the previously mentioned first paragraph.
maybe this can help
http://homeworktips.about.com/od/paperassignments/a/introsentence.htm
maybe this can help
http://homeworktips.about.com/od/paperassignments/a/introsentence.htm
Soviet Culture and Media during Khrushchev's time?
How much censorship was there during Khrushchev's lead in the Soviet and his crack to liberalize the nation?
Censorship dramatically reduced during Khrushchev's prevail. The literary magazine Novy Mir (New World) shifted it's stance to that of opposition, publishing works by Nabokov, Solzhenitsyn even George Orwell.
Integument also enjoyed a renaissance - films such as The Cranes are Flying and the Ballad of a Soldiers are rightly considered classics.
In the visual arts there was less of a thaw - Sotsrealism was still the formal style, but photography was seen as a way of recording the 'truth' - and a way of showing the country free from the distortions of the Stalinist era.
See:
http://russia.rin.ru/guides_e/7177.html
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0425/is_/ai_16109264
http://www.rusfilm.pitt.edu/2003/program2.html
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Chabad court victory sparks Russia-US art war
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The Birth Anniversary of the great Russian Novelist M. Bulgakov
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