Afghanistan and the Soviet Union Intervention?

Yi: afghanistan has been in conflict with other nations and fought off invasions by forces for centuries. Yi: I think the afghan identity really, as far as the diaspra got so lost in this gratitude that no one paused to say how did we get here? Why are we here? And what role did different countries play in that? i can't help but see that there's a risk of, once again, letting the why and how we got here slip away," she says.