The Afghan issue in international relations (1979-1980)

Karmal B. speaking from the podium in Kabul in 1979. View of one of the streets of Kabul, a tank is standing on the street, Afghan soldiers are around the tank.

Afghan and Soviet soldiers are sitting on the armor of an infantry fighting vehicle, faces of Soviet soldiers and Afghan guides.

Photographs of US President Carter J. and British Prime Minister Thatcher M., texts of articles about the introduction of Soviet troops into Afghanistan in foreign newspapers.

Carter speaking on television, photographs of Carter and Brzezinski Z. in American newspapers.

A burning truck and a destroyed building on one of the streets of Kabul on February 22, 1980, burnt buses, corpses of people on the street who died during the armed anti-government rebellion.

Firefighters are extinguishing a burning building.

People are clearing away rubble, view of a damaged building in Kabul, broken and bullet-pierced window panes.

A broken shop window of a bookstore.