[Tolo News] Twenty-two years back, Soviet forces on this day left Afghanistan following tough resistance from Afghan people and Mujahidden.
International pressures and peoples' tireless resistance finally made the Soviet troops leave Afghanistan in January 1989.
| Wasn't there a good deal of aid from America, too, funneled through Pakistan? |
| Thank you Charlie Wilson... |
Afghanistan was invaded on 27th of December 1979 from both ground and air. Soviet Union troops entered into Afghanistan from different directions including Torghundi, Hairatan and Sherkhan borders.
The Russian Occupation which lasted for nine years claimed around two million lives. During the years of the Russian invasion in Afghanistan more than one million people were maimed and around seven million others were forced to quit homes and run for survival.
Hours after Soviet forces invaded Afghanistan, Hafizullah Amin (Afghanistan's Caped President) was poisoned at a treat in Darulaman in Kabul.
| There's a long history of that kind of thing in the Muslim world. A dinner invitation from a rival should be regarded as an overt threat. |
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