USSR Occupation of Afghanistan, starting from the background and moving towards to starting of War, Political Events, Ending of the War, and the aftermaths of the War.

1. USSR
OCCUPATION Of AFGHANISTAN

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3. BACKGROUND
• SAUR Revolution.
• PDPA Reforms.
• Friendship Treaty, 1978.
• Murder of US Ambassador.
• Inner Conflict of PDPA.
• Rebellions Started.
• Soviet Aid to Afghan Gov.
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4. STARTING OF WAR
Events happened in starting of war

5. Starting of the
War.
Deployment of Forces
• Treaty of Friendship
• Soviet military assistant came to North
AFG, Nov 1979 .
• KGB reported that’s Amin’s loyalty is in
the question
• 700 troops entered AFG, killed Amin,
took key Positions, December 1979.
• Eclectic Babrak as President
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6. POLITICS.
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“The ballot is stronger
than
the bullet.”

7. POLITICAL
EVENTS.
• Civil War in Afghanistan.
• The Afghan gov. according to the "
Friendship Treaty" involved USSR in
Afghanistan.
• CIA interfered In-directly in the invasion.
• Forced Pakistan to give training and
hence established Mujahedeen .
• Muslim countries and some others also
supported Mujahedeen.
• Geneva accords Afghanistan 1988.
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8. TIMELINE
FRIENDSHIP
TREATY INVASION
BABRAK
KAMAL
MUJAHIDIN
AID
US
SUPPLIES
NAJIBU-
LLAH
GENEVA
ACCORDS
BACKED
OFF
1978 1979 1980 1985 1986 1986 1988 1989
Soviet-Afghan
Friendship
Treat
Soviet Union
Invades
Afghanistan
Babrak Karmal
as a new ruler
Mujahidin and Pakistan
, alliance against Soviet
US Aid to
Mujahedeen
Babrak Kamal
Replaced by
Najibullah
Afghanistan,
USSR, the US
and Pakistan
signed peace
Soviet Troops
withdrawal
from
Afghanistan

9. ENDING OF WAR
• From 1983 Pak foreign ministry
was working for Soviet exit.
• Gorbachev came to power with
many reforms.
• Criticism at home.
• 1987 Soviet announced its
Withdrawing.
• Reason for withdrawal.
• Geneva Accords
(PAK,USA,AFG and USSR)
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10. Ending of the
War
Causalities:
• 1979-89 almost 620,000 army men
served(80,000 to 104,000)
• 14.453 died
• 53,753 wounded
• 415,932 sick
• Soviet used almost $115 Billion(2019) in
AFG war.
On the AFG side
• 562,000-2,000,000 dead
• 5 – 10 million fled to Pak and Iran
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11. AFTER EFFECTS
o Afghan refugees.
o Downfall of USSR and establishment of Central Asian
Countries.
o USSR Invention and Breeding grounds for Terrorism.
o Rise of Taliban.
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12. Afghan
Reguees
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13. “The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution
of those determined to be free.”
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