The Soviet War - Facts You Probably Don't Know - Documentary Films Channel

The Soviet war in Afghanistan lasted over 9 years from December 1979 to February 1989. Part of the Cold War, it was fought between Soviet-led Afghan forces against multi-national insurgent teams called the Mujahideen, primarily composed of two partnerships-- the Peshawar Seven and the Tehran Eight. Early in the policy of the PDPA government, the Maoist Afghanistan Liberation Organization also played a considerable duty in resistance, but its major force was defeated by late 1979, prior to the Soviet treatment.
In June 1975, militants from the Jamiat Islami event tried to overthrow the government. In 1978, the Taraki government launched a collection of reforms, including a radical modernization of the traditional Islamic civil culture. Between April 1978 and the Soviet Intervention of December 1979, hundreds of prisoners, perhaps as several as 27,000, were carried out. Large parts of the nation entered open disobedience. The Afghan government, having actually secured a treaty in December 1978 that enabled them to contact Soviet forces, continuously requested the intro of troops in Afghanistan in the very first fifty percent of 1979. They asked for Soviet troops to offer safety and to assist in the fight versus the mujahideen rebels. Foreign priests from 34 Islamic nations adopted a resolution which required and put down the soviet intervention "the immediate, unconditional and urgent drawback of Soviet troops" from the Muslim united state of Afghanistan. The UN General Assembly passed a resolution opposing the Soviet treatment in Afghanistan by a ballot of 104-- 18.