trauma with the afghan people and the afghan government. because the afghan government, while it had recognized the post-czarist, soon-to-be soviet states, while they had aligned themselves with someone britain was alarmed about for so many decades, the population of afghanistan didn't necessarily like that. they didn't necessarily like or want afghanistan being run by a communist soviet allied government, and so they started an insurgency against it. after all those wars the british fought in the previous century to try to keep afghanistan on their side, all of which ultimately failed. it was russia, the soviet union, that felt it necessary to invade afghanistan themselves in 1979 to try to keep the afghan