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Afghanistan: The Great Game - A Personal View by Rory Stewart Season 1 Episode 2

Episode Title: Episode 2
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Airing Date: May 30, 2012
Runtime:60 mins
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Afghanistan: The Great Game - A Personal View by Rory Stewart: In the second episode Rory reveals the Soviets as reluctant invaders who agonised over the risks of intervention in 1978, and ultimately saw a theoretically brief invasion turn into an eight year long battle. He also unravels the undercover fight that began between the Soviet Union and the US, as both sought to buy influence in Afghanistan.As Rory takes a deeply personal look at the role fear and paranoia by other countries has played in Afghan history, he meets the soldiers and Generals on both sides, and the CIA spies who covertly funded the Afghans.

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