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Afghanistan has had various conflicts in it’s long history as a country. One of the most deadly and most interesting however is the Soviet-Afghan War, this war was going on during the time of shadow government operations, covert espionage, and the whole world watching, while two of the worlds biggest superpowers were on the brink of total nuclear war. This was the Soviet Afghan War.
The Soviet Afghan war was sparked when the overthrow of the centrist Afghan government occurred on the 27th of April 1978 by a coup of procommunist rebels. During this time much of Afghanistan was anti-communism. However over a period of time Afghanistan was becoming more and more communist. Before in 1978 Afghanistan was ruled by a very anti-communist ruler, President Sadar Mohammed Daoud who came to power in 1973. Earlier in April 1978 the murder of a leading Afghan communist leader most likely sparked the overthrow and murder of President Sardar. After the murder of President Sadar the stability of Afghanistan worsened and worsened. With Afghan Communist party leader Nur Mohammed Taraki taking over the Afghan government, and the signing of a 20-year “Friendship treaty” with the Soviet Union that increased the amount of Soviet military and economic assistance into the country, it was only a matter of time until Russians rolled into Afghanistan with Tanks, and troops. Finally in 1979 Taraki was overthrown and murdered, months later the soviet Afghan war began with Tanks crossing Afghan provinces and Russian troops setting up bases.

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Around midnight on December 24, 1979, around 280 transport aircrafts and three divisions of almost 8,500 Russ...

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...nd details on enemy soviet positions and then deserted to join the Mujahideen. Everything was failing and kept going down for the Soviets. To add to the stress of their failures Mujahideen sabotages and assassinations were a daily occurrence. Around January 1987 Russia was realizing this was a losing war and was starting to decide on how they were going to withdraw. Around 1988 Soviet forces were preparing to leave and withdraw. Very friendly negotiated “cease-fire” agreements with mujahideen commanders were going successfully. The war finally ended on February 15, 1989. 850,000-1,500,00 Afghan civilians were killed, 75,000-90,000 Mujahideen soldiers were killed and 14,453 Soviet Soldiers were killed in the war. The Soviet War in Afghanistan was over, and the Cold War was dwindling down. In two more years the Soviet Union would collapse.

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