Eastern Europe has, in weeks, already started shaking off Soviet-supported Communist governments.

It depicts important events in Afghans history, including the different stages of the 1979 uprising of Afghans against the Soviet-supported government around Herat.

The border region was the scene of high international tensions four decades ago, with the Iranian Government appealing to the United Nations and a Soviet-supported Communist "popular" government eventually retreating from Iran's Azerbaijan province.

During the Cold War, most of the countries in the Balkans were ruled by Soviet-supported communist governments.

Ten days later, the Berlin Wall fell, and Soviet-supported governments in Eastern Europe began to totter.

In Afghanistan, Angola, Nicaragua and elsewhere, under the Reagan Doctrine, the U.S. began undermining Soviet-supported governments by supplying arms to anti-communist resistance movements in these nations.

A short documentary and a short film he made were banned by the Soviet-supported government of the 1980's.

With the Reagan Doctrine, those fears were set aside and the U.S. began to openly confront Soviet-supported governments through support of rebel movements in the doctrine's targeted countries.

The group opposed the Soviet-supported government, the following Mujahideen and Islamist governments, and the present United States-supported Islamic Republican form of government.

In 1979, Kamal began a campaign against Soviet forces and the Soviet-supported government of Afghanistan.