The Soviet-Afghan War was a conflict wherein insurgent groups known collectively as the Mujaheddin, as well as smaller Maoist groups, fought a guerrilla war against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government.
And on December 24, 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978. As midnight approached, the Soviets organized a massive military airlift into Kabul, involving an estimated 280 transport aircraft and three divisions of almost 8,500 men each. About 15,000 Soviet soldiers were killed, and about 35,000 were wounded. About two million Afghan civilians were killed.
The anti-government forces had support from many countries, mainly the United States and Pakistan. The Soviet War in Afghanistan, 1979 - 1989. Nearly twenty-five years ago, the Soviet Union pulled its last troops out of Afghanistan, ending more than nine years of direct involvement and occupation. In December 1979, in the midst of the Cold War, the Soviet 40th Army invaded Afghanistan in order to prop up the communist government of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) against a growing insurgency. The Soviet Union feared the loss of its communist proxy in Afghanistan.
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