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The Soviet–Afghan War was an armed conflict that took place in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from December 1979 to February 1989. Marking the beginning of the 46-year-long Afghan conflict, it saw the Soviet Union and the Afghan military fight against the rebelling Afghan mujahideen.
The total withdrawal of all Soviet troops from Afghanistan was completed in February 1989. [35] The last Soviet soldier to leave was Lieutenant General Boris Gromov, leader of the Soviet military operations in Afghanistan at the time of the Soviet invasion. [36] In total, 14,453 Soviet soldiers died during the Soviet–Afghan War.
Operation Storm-333 (Russian: Шторм-333, Štorm-333) was a military raid executed by the Soviet Union in Afghanistan on 27 December 1979. Special forces and airborne troops stormed the heavily fortified Tajbeg Palace in Kabul and assassinated Afghan leader Hafizullah Amin, a Khalqist of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) who had taken power in the Saur Revolution of April ...
United Nations Security Council resolution 462, adopted on 9 January 1980, after considering an item on the agenda of the council and given the lack of unanimity amongst its permanent members, the council decided to call an emergency meeting of the United Nations General Assembly to discuss the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
The 9th Company (Russian: 9 рота, romanized: 9 rota) is a 2005 Russian war film directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk and set during the Soviet–Afghan War.The film is loosely based on a real-life battle that took place at Hill 3234 in early 1988, during Operation Magistral, the last large-scale Soviet military operation in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan France Earth and Ashes: خاکستر و خاک: Atiq Rahimi: Drama. Based on a novel Earth and Ashes. 2005 Russia Ukraine Finland The 9th Company: 9 рота: Fyodor Bondarchuk: Action, Drama, History, War. Battle for Hill 3234: 2006 France Germany Afghanistan The Soldier's Star: L'étoile du soldat: Christophe de Ponfilly: Drama ...
"Documents on the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan" (Cold War International History Project, Nov. 2001) online, 79pp Heinamaa, Anna, et al. The Soldiers' Story: Soviet Veterans Remember the Afghan War (University of California International, 1994).
After gaining power, the Khalqists unleashed a campaign of "red terror", killing more than 27,000 people in the Pul-e-Charkhi prison, prior to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979. [12] Political scientist Olivier Roy estimated between 50,000 and 100,000 people disappeared during the Taraki–Amin period. [14]