Speaker 1: I'm Jason Colvin, I'm d Graves.
Speaker 2: Give us five minutes and we will give you the fire.
Speaker 1: Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Surely You Can't
Be Serious Podcast Special Edition five Minutes of Fire. We
are here talking about the lyrics of we Didn't Start
the Fire by Billy Joel. We're covering only five minutes
at a time, which is about to link the song,
so it works out kind of nicely. So please join
us as we dive into some new lyrics today. All right, guys,
so here are the topics that we're going to.
Speaker 2: Be covering today.
Speaker 1: Terror on the airlines.
Speaker 2: Ayatola's in Iran, Russians in Afghanistanine. Okay, do you tell
us about terror.
Speaker 1: On the airline? Okay. So, plane hijacking has been a
thing almost as long as there have been planes. It
was actually kind of an epidemic for a long period
of time from nineteen twenty seven to nineteen sixty eight.
But they put screenings and other safety measures in effect,
and the amount of hijacking had seriously decreased by nineteen eighty.
But in nineteen eighty a new form of hijacking began,
and that was the hijacking of planes by organized terrorists.
I remember hearing about these things frequently as a kid.
Some of the most notable ones are Air India Flight
one eighty two, which was hijacked and bombed over the
Irish coast. In eighty eight, we had pan Am flight
one oh three and it was bombed while flying over Scotland.
This created the terror of being on airplanes, and obviously
the nineties saw a significant decrease until, of course, two
thousand and one we had the biggest terrorist plane hijacking
in history. All right, Jason Iatola, who is he? And whyse?
Speaker 2: And Iran Okay Iatola Ruhola Komani was an Iranian Islamic revolutionary,
politician and religious leader who served as the First Supreme
Leader of Iran from nineteen seventy nine until his death
in nineteen eighty nine. He opposed the shaw's rights to women,
He opposed land reforms, and he wanted to free Iran
from the influence of the US and the uss R.
He wanted to eliminate religious minorities and no state of Israel.
He was the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran
and the leader of the Iranian Revolution. Which overthrew the
US supported Shaw that ended the Iranian monarchy. He turned
Iran from a actually a Western friendly country into a
theocratic rogue state. He called America the Great Satan and
Russia the Blesser Satan. Komani served as Iran's ultimate political
and religious authority for many years. He was involved in
the US hostage crisis, and my favorite moment of his
is when Leslie Nilsen punches him at the beginning of
The Naked Gun.
Speaker 1: I remember that. I remember that guy. I mean he
the Beard, the white Beard, and the black Turban and
he was the face of evil in the eighties for me. Yes, yeah, yeah, Okay.
Speaker 2: Do you tell us about Russians in Afghanistan?
Speaker 1: Okay? So. The Soviet Afghan War was a protracted armed
conflict in the Soviet controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. It
went from nineteen seventy nine to nineteen eighty nine. The
war was a major conflict of the Cold War, saw
extensive fighting between the DRA the Soviet Union. The war
was a major conflict of the Cold War. There was
extensive fighting between the DRA, the Soviet Union, and allied
paramilitary groups against the Afghan Mujahedeen and their allied foreign fighters.
The Mujahadeen was backed by various countries and organizations. Most
of their support came from Pakistan or the United States
as part of the Operation Cyclone, the United Kingdom, China
and Iran, and some of the Arab states of the
Persian Gulf. The involvement of these foreign powers made it
really more of a proxy war between the US and
the Soviets. The combat went through the entire course of
the eighties, mostly in the Aft countryside. It led to
the deaths of between five hundred and sixty two thousand
and two million Afghan citizens. Millions more fled from the
country as refugees. Mostly they ended up in Pakistan and Iran.
Approximately six and a half percent of the Afghanistan population
is estimated to have been killed over the course of
the conflict. The Soviet Afghan War caused destruction throughout Afghanistan
and has been cited by scholars as a factor that
contributed to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, formally ending
the Cold War. A sad thing that we know now
is that a lot of those arms that we supplied
to them back then, they began using when they fought
against us, and here in the twenty first century. Okay, guys,
that does it for today's episode. Join us next time
for five minutes of fire.