Afghan Rafa

Hello today I will tell you something about the Soviet-Afghan conflict.

The Soviet-Afghan intervention began in December 1979 and ended in February 1989.

This war began  when a small group of 50 soviet special force soldiers called "Spetznas"

started to find their way into the palace while fighting against 2000 people from the national guard of afghanistan.

The russians started the operation with the reason to help a neighbour country because the leader of this country

Amin is not the legitimate ruler of this country.

Hafizullah Amin the afghan president was located in this palace, he was the main target of the Soviet Union.

Amin, his son, 200 afghan soldiers and 20 Soviet soldiers died. After this the big battle between the Soviet Uninon and the Mushahed began

Mujahidees are radical islamic terrorist, the term of Mujahide stands for a person who is performing the way of a jihad,

the meaning of jihad is striving the way of God. The Red Army tried to circle afghanistan and get controll over the whole

country step by step. The rescued districts got help from the Soviet Union they got schools,highways,factorys,a new home and Democracy

and so on. But a lot of afghanistan people were fighting against the Soviets because they were told from other nations

especially from the Unitated States of America that the Russians will try to convert their religion and destroy their cluture.

The Afghan Mujahidees received their supplies from the USA, China, Saudi Arabia and other leading Nato countries, they also recieved

weapon and tactic training from the US officers.

They also trained the well known Osama Bin Laden who blew up both of the World Trade Centers.

One of the most important thing in this war was the air force.

The Soviets got a big advantage with the WWS (ввс) (Soviet Air Force). The US government realised this and they started to give

Mujahidees Stingers. Stingers are rocket launchers with ground-air ammunition it means that they are effective against planes and helicopters

It was a huge step backwards for the Red Army. The Soviet troops were friendly to the afghanistan civilians. They often traded with

cigarettes and other stuff like that.

But this friendliness killed a lot of Soviets, for example: an afghan kid told Russian soldiers that he knows where some of the

Mujahidees are hidding. The Soviet soldier believed the kid and followed him, in the end it was a trap and the afghan kid suicided in a

minefield with a lot of Russian soldiers and other people.

The Mujahidees were fighting with a lot of dirty tricks for example. One of the most used tactic from the Soviet union was the Green

Carpet.

In this tactic Soviet soliders circeled a whole village and gave them 24 hours to get out, the civilians left but the Mujahidees stayed
there

after the give time period they started to bomb it. The last battle of the Soviet Union was "the Battle for Hill 3234" . In the fight

39 Russian soliders fought against 400 Mujahidees, the battle took 18 hours , but only the Soviets came back alive.

After the end of this Soviet-Afghan intervention the Us government declared the war to afghanistan. They killed a lot of civilians

and the drug traffic was doubled! A lot of  Afghan people say that the Us-army is inhuman compared to the russians.