Why did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan in December 1979?
A) Afghan mujahideen had provoked the invasion with a series of bomb attacks in Moscow.
B) The Soviet Union wanted to push out US development agencies working in the Helmand Valley.
C) Soviet forces wanted to shore up the teetering procommunist government in Kabul.
D) The Soviet Union was afraid that US-supported Pakistan would absorb Afghanistan.
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