Stalin's Afghan War. Battle of Central Asia

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  Stalin's Afghan War. Battle of Central Asia
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The Afghan war began for the USSR not in 1979, when Soviet troops entered Afghanistan, but 60 years earlier. Even Lenin called this country "the key to Central Asia." The battle for Afghanistan - this great secret war, in which, in addition to the USSR, Britain, and the Third Reich, and the United States also participated - dragged on for the entire 20th century, is not over yet. And if we do not want to lose again in the battle for Asia, we have a lot to learn from JV Stalin, who, without entering into a direct armed conflict, was able not only to defend, but also to strengthen Russia's influence in this zone of our national interests.

 
From the author
Chapter 1. General characteristics of the Pashtun tribes
Chapter 2. Bloody border
Chapter 3. Mission Niedermeier - Hentig: the first successes of German intelligence in the Pashtun tribal zone
Chapter 4. Third Anglo-Afghan War: Pashtuns Inflict a Heavy Defeat on England
Chapter 5. A New Threat to British India
Chapter 6. Afghanistan and the "Eastern Front" of the World Revolution
Chapter 7. Soviet "all-Asian super-authorized" in Kabul
Chapter 8. "Lion of Islam" - Soviet agent in Kabul
Chapter 9. The Comintern enters the "big game"
Chapter 10. The first successes and failures of the Comintern in the "Afghan corridor"
Chapter 11. Kabul illegal center in action
Chapter 12. Pamir Outpost
Chapter 13. The Curzon Ultimatum: The British Empire Fights Back
Chapter 14. "New Offensive Policy"
Chapter 15. Mutiny in Khost: Pashtuns Against Amanullah's Reforms
Chapter 16. Daring "tour" scout Losev
Chapter 17. Failed revenge of the Comintern in the "Afghan corridor"
Chapter 18. Overthrow of Amanullah Khan
Chapter 19. A new round of struggle for the Afghan throne
Chapter 20. War of two "emirs": Amanullah Khan against Habibullah Khan
Chapter 21. Border Tribes Capture Kabul: Nadir Khan Becomes King
Chapter 22. New blood in the "independent" strip of British India
Chapter 23. Conspiracy of Nabi Khan
Chapter 24. Last Victory of Nadir Shah
Chapter 25. Afghan Vendetta and the USSR
Chapter 26. Finest hour of the Fakir of Ipi
Chapter 27. Shami Pir's Adventure: The First Operation of the Third Reich Special Services in the Pashtun Tribal Zone
Chapter 28. Operations "Amanullah" and "Tibet"
Chapter 29. The crisis of confidence 1940-1941. in Central Asia
Chapter 30. Troubled Years
Chapter 31. An uninvited "guest" in Kabul
Chapter 32. British India in the Sight of Axis Agents
Chapter 33 Collapse of Operation Fire Eater
Chapter 34. Agreman V. Hentig
Chapter 35. "Tiger" prepares to jump
Chapter 36. A crushing blow to Axis agents in Afghanistan
Chapter 37. Why the Abwehr could not establish the Baku-Waziristan air bridge
Chapter 38. Kabul-42: a game on two fronts
Chapter 39. Failed campaign to Bukhara
Chapter 40. Union of diplomats and intelligence officers in the "secret war" in Kabul
Chapter 41. The uprising of the Pashtun tribes broke out, but the III Reich gained nothing from this
Chapter 42. Moscow epilogue

 
Conclusion

 
Appendix I
Document # 1: Appeal of Afghan Emir Amanullah Khan to the Border Tribes
Document No. 2: Information from the head of the Eastern Department of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs A. N. Voznesensky. 05/20/1920
Document No. 3: Secret radiogram of the Soviet plenipotentiary in Afghanistan Ya. Z. Surits. 05/22/1920
Document No. 4: Letter from M. Barakatulla to V. I. Lenin. 10.06.1920
Document # 5: Plan of Military Operations on the Border and in India
Document No. 6: To the Plenipotentiary Representative of the RSFSR in Afghanistan
Document # 7: Excerpt from a Letter from an NKID Representative in Central Asia
Document No. 8: Letter from the Indian Communist Abani Mukherjee to the Head of the Eastern Secretariat of the Comintern
Document No. 10: Sample subscription of an employee of the Turkburo of the Comintern on nondisclosure of official secrets
Document No. 11: Letter from NM Goldberg to the Eastern Department of the ECCI. 9.06.1922
Document No. 12: Telegram from the head of the Eastern Department of the ECCI G. I. Safarov and the secretary of the same department A. Yu. Tivel
Document No. 13: A copy of NM Goldberg's letter to the command of the Pamir detachment about the illegal transfer of "Hindus" to their homeland
Document No. 14: Cost estimate compiled by N.M. Goldberg for sending the first group of Indian communists from Tashkent to their homeland
Document No. 16: From the minutes No. 69 of the meeting of the Politburotsk of the CPSU (b) dated 21.03.1929. Decision of the Politburo dated 20.03.1929.
Document No. 17: Decision of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks dated 7.05.1929 "On Afghanistan"
Document No. 18: Extract from a letter by L. N. Stark addressed to V. I. Soloviev
Document No. 19: Certificate of the USSR People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs about Muhammad Nadir Khan
Document No. 20: Theses of the Eastern Secretariat of the ECCI "Towards the situation in Afghanistan". 12.12.1931
Document No. 21: Memorandum of the Head of the Personnel Department of the Comintern P. Gulyaev to the Secretary General G. Dimitrov
Appendix II
Document number 1: Protocol of interrogation by the NKVD of the former commander of the volunteer forces of the Western Front of the Germans, Major General von Niedermeier Oskar, dated September 30, 1946
Document number 2: Protocol of interrogation in the NKVD of Gulyam Siddiq Khan dated April 5, 1946
Document No. 3: Memorandum of the Chief of the Eastern Department of the German Foreign Ministry Melchers
Document # 4: A Message from the German Intelligence Officer Wenger
Document # 5: Fred Brandt's Report
Document # 6: To the German Embassy in Kabul
Document number 7: Telegram from Abwehr resident in Kabul Vitzel
Document No. 8: Telegram from Hans Pilger to the German Foreign Ministry
Document No. 9: Cipher telegram from G. Pilger to State Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Germany V. Keppler
Document No. 10: Telegram of V. Keppler to G. Pilger
Document No. 11: Telegram from G. Pilger to the German Foreign Ministry
Document # 12: Rasmus' Telegram to Berlin
Document # 13: Witzel's Telegram
Document No. 14: V. Keppler's Telegramme to G. Pilger
Document No. 15: Telegram from G. Pilger to W. Keppler
Document # 16: Memorandum from Melchers to Wöhrmann
Document # 17: Wöhrmann's Telegram to Kabul
Document No. 18: Telegram from G. Pilger to the German Foreign Ministry
Document # 19: Telegram to the German Embassy in Kabul
Document number 20: Cipher telegram of G. Pilger
Document # 21: Excerpt from G. Pilger's Telegram
Document # 22: Excerpt from Keppler's Telegram to Kabul
Document No. 23: Excerpt from a Telegram from the Ambassador to Italy, Bismarck
Document No. 24: Materials for Talks with Envoy Prunas regarding Afghanistan
Document # 25: Keppler Memo to Ribbentrop
Document No. 26: Excerpts from the protocol of the interrogation of the German ambassador G. Pilger in the Butyrka prison dated January 31, 1946
Appendix III
Document # 1: A Brief Background on German Activities in Afghanistan. 1930-1940
Document number 2: Excerpt from the operational letter of "Semyon"
Document # 3: Excerpt from Zaman's Report
Document # 4: Excerpt from Zaman's Report from Kabul, 03.05.1942.
Document # 5: A Brief Background on Haji Mirza Seyid Ali Khan (Fakir of the IPI), the leader of the Waziristan Independent Band
Document number 6: Report of the resident of the Soviet foreign intelligence in Kabul M. Allakhverdov "about Fakir from the IPI and his connection with the Italians"
Document # 7: Tribal Clashes with the British in the Band of "Independent" Tribes
Document No. 9: Explanation of the new ciphers received by Rom from the Germans during a meeting with them on September 4, 1943.
Document # 10: Letter from the British Intelligence Representative in Moscow, Colonel Hill
Document # 11: Excerpt from Zaman's Report. 07/06/1944