Hello and welcome again to everyone. Were revisiting some of the most Influential Program from more than a decade of documentaries on the aljazeera as well as bringing you news of how the story has moved on since. I can 979. 00 the world woke up to news that the russian army had swept across the border into afghanistan in an attempt to prop up the communist government there it followed 18 months of civil unrest after the Peoples Democratic party seized power in 1978 however the p. D. P. Is radical plans including land reforms and equality of the sexes as well as modernizing traditional islamic civil and marriage laws that all spawned the guerrilla Resistance Movement known as the mujahedeen what followed was a decade of bloody civil war with pakistan in the United States covertly supporting the islamic rebels against russian backed Government Forces it was the beginning of 4 decades of violence and unrest for that troubled country back in 2009 aljazeera sports presenter Andy Richardson