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SOVIET Ambassador in Kabul Konstantin Mikhailov learned about the perfidious attack of fascist Germany on the USSR of June 22, 1941, and the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War while on an official trip to the northern provinces of Afghanistan. He returned to the Afghan capital the same day.
Early in the morning of June 23, 1941, the head of the Soviet diplomatic mission in Kabul was received by Ali Mohammad Khan, the foreign minister of Afghanistan. It was a very personal meeting, without interpreters. Mikhailov informed the minister about the events on the Soviet-German front and about the radio speech of Soviet People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyacheslav Molotov. The foreign minister of Afghanistan made a general statement about the peaceful nature of Soviet foreign policy and assessed Germany's attack as provocative and aggressive. The private nature of this confidential meeting allowed the Soviet ambassador to conclude that the ruling Nadir dynasty would not be quick to announce their country's neutrality in the military confrontation between the Soviet Union and fascist Germany [1].
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189183
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THE NADER dynasty that had ascended the throne of Afghanistan in 1929 was guided by the behests of emir Abdur Rahman Khan, who had fought for international recognition of his country's sovereignty and called on those who shared his views to develop relations with states that had no common border with Afghanistan. In particular, shortly before his death, he wrote: "If concessions to foreigners are recognized as absolutely necessary and wise, these concessions should be given in small parts to the nations whose countries have no common borders with our possessions - for example, the Americans, Germans, Italians, etc. In the same way, if our government needs a great number of specialists, engineers, etc., to my mind, they should be chosen, as I have said, from among the nations mentioned above."1 He was convinced that Afghanistan should base its relations with neighbors on the principles of equidistance.
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