1989
the movement of Soviet troops to Afghanistan
free soviet prisoners
Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan
Mikhail Gorbachev
Waqas siddiqui Ans: 14 April 1988
The invasion of Afghanistan by Soviet troops-------> NovaNet
This appellation came from the fact that the Soviet-Afghanistan War of 1979-1989 was a war in which many Soviet troops, trying to prop up a pro-Soviet government, died in a foreign land (Afghanistan) opposed by rebel insurgents (Mujahedin). This was very similar to the US experience in the Second Indochinese War (called the Vietnam War in the USA), where many US troops, trying to prop up a pro-US government, died in a foreign land (Vietnam) opposed by rebel insurgents (VietCong).
The Mujahedin forces that resisted the U.S.S.R during the Soviet Invasion were sponsored/advised by a covert branch of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The withdrawal of Soviet troops served as a theological victory for the United States, who at the time was in a Cold War with the Soviets. It also served to reinforce the Afghan mystique, that no invader has succeeded in taking Afghanistan from the Afghans.
The Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan.
Afghanistan was invaded by soviet troops