TEHRAN- The last and total withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan began on 15 May 1988 and ended on 15 February 1989 under the management of Colonel-General Boris Gromov.More than eight years after they intervened in Afghanistan to support the pro-communist federal government, Soviet troops start their withdrawal.

The event marked the beginning of the end to a long, bloody, and ineffective Soviet profession of Afghanistan.We ask a question that why did the Soviet Union invade Afghanistan in 1979? In 1919, the year Afghans won self-reliance to conduct their own foreign policy, the Soviet Union became the first country to develop diplomatic relations with Afghanistan-- which, in turn, was one of the very first to officially acknowledge the Bolshevik government.

From the early 19th century onward, Afghanistan ended up being a geopolitical pawn in what happened known as The Great Game in between the empires of Tsarist Russia and Great Britain.

Afraid that Tsarist Russias growth into Central Asia would bring it perilously near to the border of India, their imperial gem, Britain battled three wars in Afghanistan to keep a buffer versus Russian encroachment.By 1979, Afghanistan, a faltering country, supplied another opportunity for the USSR to militarily implement the Brezhnev teaching.

Failing to act, leaders recognized, might call into question Soviet determination to support other regimes on its side of the so-called Iron Curtain, the physical and ideological border dividing the USSR from the rest of Europe after World War II.Afghanistans chaos alarmed Soviet management mainly due to the fact that it increased the chances that Afghan leaders might rely on the United States for aid.

Top Politburo members alerted Brezhnev in late October 1979 that Hafizullah Amin sought to pursue a more well balanced policy which the United States was identifying the possibility of a modification in the political line of Afghanistan.

In the fall of 1979, revolutionary Hafizullah Amin managed an internal PDPA coup that killed the celebrations first leader and introduced his quick, but ruthless reign.

National discontent skyrocketed, and Moscows hand-wringing heightened.

Moscow feared growing U.S.

involvement.The 1979 invasion set off a brutal, nine-year civil war and contributed substantially to the USSRs later collapse.

On Christmas Eve 1979, the Soviet Union started an invasion of Afghanistan.

The Soviets organized a huge military airlift into Kabul, involving an approximated 280 transportation airplane and three divisions of nearly 8,500 guys each.

It air-dropped elite troops into principal Afghan cities.

Soon after, it deployed motorized departments across the border.

Within days, the KGB, which had infiltrated the Afghan presidential palace, poisoned the president and his ministers, helping release a Moscow-backed coup to install a brand-new puppet leader, Babrak Karmal.

The intrusion activated a ruthless, nine-year-long Afghan civil war.

Within a couple of days, the Soviets had actually protected Kabul, deploying a special attack unit versus Tajberg Palace.

Components of the Afghan army devoted to Hafizullah Amin set up an intense, however brief resistance.By the time the last Soviet soldiers took out in early 1989, rumbling back throughout the ironically called Friendship Bridge, the conflict had cost the lives of an estimated 1 million civilians and some 125,000 Afghan, Soviet and other contenders.

The war created chaos not just on Afghanistan but on the Soviet Union, whose economy and nationwide eminence took a severe drubbing.By 1988, the Soviets chose to extricate themselves from the circumstance.

Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev saw the Afghan intervention as an increasing drain on the Soviet economy, and the Russian individuals were tired of a war that numerous Westerners described as Russias Vietnam.

This disgraceful failure was forecasted by Imam Khomeini.

We will see what he stated: Imam Khomeini, who was constantly among the main fans of the Afghan individuals against the invasion of the Soviet Red Army in Afghanistan and who had predicted the defeat of the Soviet Red Army prior to the Soviet forces invaded Afghanistan, said this about his meeting with the Soviet ambassador: The day when the Soviet ambassador pertained to me, he stated that the Afghan federal government desired the Soviets send soldiers there, I informed him that this is an error that the Soviets are making.

Naturally, the Soviet federal government can inhabit Afghanistan, however it cant settle there.

If you have thought of that you can take Afghanistan and calm it, this is a false dream.

If you go and any other power also goes, it will take there but it cant soothe it down and finally it will stop working.

(Book of the Imam; Vol.

12, p.

215)In a message was sent out by Imam Khomeini to the visitants of Baitullah Al-Haram, the Imam in 1366, revealed his regret that the Soviet Union didnt act upon his caution and stated: I regret that the Soviet Union didnt pay attention to my alerting about Afghanistan and attacked this Islamic nation.

I have said sometimes and now I caution you to leave the Afghan individuals alone.

Individuals of Afghanistan determine their own fate and guarantee their genuine independence, and they do not require the Kremlin patronage or the American guardianship, and they definitely will not submit to another rule after the departure of foreign military forces from their nation, and they will not follow Americas way if they intend to interfere and attack.

In their country, they will break it.

(Book of the Imam; Vol.

20, p.

317)We do not forget when the U.S.

attacked Afghanistan and had a long war there, from 2001 to 2021.

It tried to control Afghanistan, but it failed.

Regardless of killing hundreds of countless Afghans and spending hundreds of billions of dollars, it lost the war and left the nation in disgrace.