How did the first Soviet-Afghan stories begin?
Author: Alexander Knyazev
Somehow, a significant date slipped by imperceptibly: on March 27, 1919, Soviet Russia officially recognized Afghanistan. Afghanistan, in turn, was the first state in the world to recognize Soviet Russia.
Our relations with Afghanistan until 1929 were very positive, including Soviet military assistance in the third Anglo-Afghan war, and later in the suppression of the uprisings of the eastern Pashtun tribes provoked by the British. There are even legends that Andrei Evgenievich Snesarev helped create the main strategic plans for the third Anglo-Afghan war.
Be that as it may, the third Anglo-Afghan war is perhaps the only case in history when it was not Britain that declared war on anyone but declared on it. And it lost it.
In 1929, our vis-a-vis Amanullah Khan was overthrown by the rebel army of Bachai Saqo (aka, in the Tajik interpretation of Habibullah Ghazi). This is the first experience of a non-Pashtun coming to power in Afghanistan. The experience was unsuccessful, less than a year later Bachai Sakao was hanged. The curator of Bachai Saqo, who prepared the uprising and at the same time provoked the idea of creating an Uzbek-Tajik state in the north of Afghanistan under the control of the famous Basmachi Kurbashi Ibrahim Bek, was the legendary Lawrence of Arabia, who worked in the Tribal Zone under the pseudonym Pir Karam Shah.
It is very similar to the current situation - the Anglo-Saxons are betting on ethnic minorities and inter-ethnic contradictions. I always say and repeat - there is nothing new in history.
The situation of 1929 is the only case for that period when we tried to interfere in the internal affairs of Afghanistan. A united detachment of the Red Army under the command of Vitaly Primakov and Hazara military formations, supporters of Amanullah, entered the country from Termez.
There are two interesting details here. The Hazaras are in defense of the Pashtun emir, this is the first thing. And secondly, the machine-gun company in this expedition was later commanded by the well-known General of the Red Army Ivan Vasilyevich Panfilov, the same division commander of the Panfilov division, which defended Moscow in 1941.
The network has a lot about this expedition if someone is interested in the whole picture as a whole.
From the telegram page "Oriental Revue with Alexander Knyazev"
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