Danny Gold
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4,199 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Sep
Danny Gold’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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From a two thousand nine Gretchen Peters paper quote The Soviet scorched earth policy destroyed thousands of acres of farmland and sent millions of refugees over the border to Iran and Pakistan, leaving fewer people to work in the remaining arable fields.
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Got so you got the millions of refugees pouring to Pakistan, everyone losing the small livelihoods that they had.
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I came up a couple seasons in, but maybe I should maybe should give it another chance.
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Oh, I
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Here's Friend of the Pod and and and just genius Venda Fell Bob Brown, who you've had on a couple of times, in a 2013 paper for the National Bureau of Asian Research.
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Though Soviet forces were able to control the major cities, they never succeeded in controlling the countryside, where they cannot distinguish insurgents from the rural population.
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As a result, Moscow ultimately resorted to a scorched earth policy of systematically destroying agricultural production and infrastructure in Afghanistan, including orchards and irrigation systems, to drive the population out of the countryside and into the cities.
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Yet, since agriculture represented the predominant segment of the overall economy,
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The population was not able to cope economically in the cities and instead switched to opium poppy cultivation in the countryside.
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And here's the thing about opium and why it's great for times like these.
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It's super easy to grow.
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It's reliable.
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It doesn't need much water.
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And once harvested, it keeps for a lengthy period of time.
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Unlike most produce you can grow.
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And since you can store it, you can use it as credit or money.
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And it is used as that in super poor areas.
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