Why did the Soviets invade this country again?

Why did the Soviets invade this country again?

To prevent radical Islam from gaining a foothold in the area and in the neighbouring Soviet republics.

Same reason the US did

they were collecting all the stans

Expansionism

Afghanistan in the 70s was ruled by a guy Sardar Khan who pursued a strict neutrality policy. He wouldn't slurp Brezhnev's cum, so he flipped his shit and ordered Khan to be couped. After Afghanistan started breaking down into anarchy, he then sent the Soviet army in to prop up the commie puppet government.

just playing the great game
not the soviets' fault that the hajjis couldn't handle the bantz

this

to build this

Soviets destabilized the the country and regretted that the radical islam was starting to gain foothold so they sent the red army to see that communism is installed in the country.

Opium money

Kind of wish it was annexed and broken into pieces. Afghanistan should not exist. Free South and West Tajikistan!

They should've invaded iran instead during the 80s when the US backed the Iraqis against iran.

Would've been an easy win tbqhwu

The soviets were stupid at dividing the SSRs along ethnic lines.

tried to prop up a shitty communist government in afghanistan to ward off american influence in the area. more or less great game 2: electric bugaloo:

They invaded to get opium money for elites.

All agents will do everything to destabilize afghanistan even if constructing isis alqueda etc..

Prior to US militaries invasion only 160k opium users in us in 2016 its 4.5 million.

>to get opium money for elites
But your elites is already filthy rich, what purpose does more money serve?

They didn't though. That's why there is ethnic conflict going on in the former Soviet union today

> t. CNN
The Saur revolution surprised even the Soviets, filthy capitalist pig. Revolutionary Afghanistan then asked the USSR for help against the Western-funded reactionaries.

> They didn't
If soviet didn't create ethnostates of modern Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan, we would've had a giant clusterfuck called Turkestan. Your welcome ameritard.

>Armenian-Azeri conflict

Fucking muslim goatfucker

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>american ''''''''''''''education''''''''''''''''''

Tajiks arent turks tho

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No shit. Half of their country was part of Turkestan. Eventually, second half would be there as well

Possibly they didn't want another american proxy near their border

No.
Perhaps a more econcomically prosperous and culturally/linguistically tolerant clusterfuck ?