(MENAFN) The final and complete removal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan started on 15 May 1988 and finished on 15 February 1989 under the leadership of Colonel-General Boris Gromov.
More than eight years following they interfered in Afghanistan to back the pro-communist administration, Soviet troops start their departure. The event marked the start of the end to a long, bloody, and fruitless Soviet takeover of Afghanistan.
We ask a question that why did the Soviet Union attack Afghanistan in 1979?
In 1919, the year Afghans won independence to achieve their own foreign policy, the Soviet Union became the first nation to start diplomatic ties with Afghanistan—which, in turn, was one of the first to officially recognize the Bolshevik administration. From the early 19th century onward, Afghanistan became a geopolitical pawn in what came to be known as “The Great Game” between the territories of Tsarist Russia and Great Britain. Fearful that Tsarist Russia’s growth into Central Asia would bring it dangerously close to the frontier of India, their imperial jewel, Britain fought three conflicts in Afghanistan to keep a buffer against Russian violation.
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