At times it was powerful while eventually it fell.
Afghanistan being in a very strategic position has provided the Soviet the advantage of controlling trades as it is in the juncture between Asia and middle east. This gave better leverage to the Soviet compared to the united states having control of pakistan after WorldWar 2. The soviet influenced has not been good in terms of improving afghan either as it made several internal tribal sect enemies with each other due to oppression and poor economy impacting poorest of the poor families.
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They did not want to pay higher prices for agricultural products. Even though the policy of destroying food was not widely accepted, the major criticism came when the prices of farm products (from bread to cotton shirts) increased up to 50%.
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