The USSR invasion of Afghanistan and the impacts it had on economics, international relations and popular opinion shaped a generation in international.
With Indian diplomats reduced to show off India’s ‘soft power’, it is instructive to recall the time 42 years ago when India snubbed the Soviets for invading Afghanistan, warned the US
modernisation programme, together with internal communist party squabbling, had resulted in crisis. moscow ran out of patience. after assassinating president amin, soviet forces poured into afghanistan and occupied the major cities. this was the first time
on december 27th, 1979, soviet special forces stormed the presidential palace in kabul. the president, hafizullah amin, was killed. this was the start of the soviet invasion of afghanistan. the soviets had invaded to shore up the communist government. afghanistan s communists had taken power in a coup in 1978, but opposition to the radical
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, invasion of Afghanistan in late December 1979 by troops from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anti-communist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War (1978–92) and remained in Afghanistan until mid-February 1989. In April 1978 Afghanistan’s centrist government, headed by Pres. Mohammad Daud Khan, was overthrown by left-wing military officers led by Nur Mohammad Taraki. Power was thereafter shared by two Marxist-Leninist political groups, the People’s (Khalq) Party and the Banner (Parcham) Party which had earlier emerged from a single organization, the People’s Democratic Party of