Afghanistan: the taliban are back to сontrol

Abstract

The history of the Taliban, an Islamic radical organization banned in Russia, dates back to the 90s of the twentieth century. Created with the active assistance (including financial) of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, the UAE, it has become the main enemy of the United States and other Western countries for many years. Having overthrown the power of the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) in early 1992, the Taliban held it until 2001. Having put a significant part of the country under its domination, the Taliban proclaimed the creation of a new type of state — the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, recognized by several countries, including sponsors. At the very end of 2021, the Taliban forced the United States and its allies to leave Afghanistan in a hurry and took power in Kabul again (the Taliban in translation from the Pashto language is a student of a madrasah, a religious school. The article is devoted to the internal and foreign policy that the Taliban seeks to pursue in Afghanistan. Time will tell whether society and the world will accept this policy, whether it will be successful. Considerable attention is also paid to various assessments of the world community of the events in this country, in which the civil war has been raging for more than 40 years. In connection with this topic, the author of the article also recalls his long-standing conclusions related not only to the PDPA, but also in general to the policy of the USSR towards the countries of the “third world”, accompanying them with his modern assessments.