Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Glossary

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1. 66 relations: Afghan Civil War (1989–1992), Afghan Civil War (1992–1996), Afghan conflict, Afghan mujahideen, Afghanistan–Uzbekistan Friendship Bridge, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Alexander Yakovlev, Andrei Gromyko, Army General (Soviet rank), Babrak Karmal, Boris Gromov, Boris Yeltsin, BTR-80, Central Intelligence Agency, Cold War, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, Dissolution of the Soviet Union, Durand Line, Eduard Shevardnadze, First Chief Directorate, General officer, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Geneva Accords (1988), George Shultz, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, Islamabad, Islamism, Jamiat-e Islami, Kabul, Leonid Brezhnev, Marxism, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mikoyan MiG-27, Milton Bearden, Mohammad Najibullah, Mujahideen, National Reconciliation (Afghanistan), Pakistan, People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Russia, Scud missile, South Asia, Soviet Armed Forces, Soviet Central Asia, Soviet Union, Soviet Union–United States relations, Soviet–Afghan War, Station chief, ... Expand index (16 more) »

2. 1988 in Afghanistan
3. 1989 in Afghanistan
4. 1989 in the Soviet Union
5. Afghanistan–Soviet Union relations
6. Battles involving the Tajiks
7. Military operations involving the Soviet Union
8. Military withdrawals
9. Pakistan–Soviet Union relations
10. Perestroika
11. Soviet–Afghan War

Afghan Civil War (1989–1992)

The 1989–1992 Afghan Civil War, also known as the First Afghan Civil War, took place between the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and the end of the Soviet–Afghan War on 15 February 1989 until 27 April 1992, ending the day after the proclamation of the Peshawar Accords proclaiming a new interim Afghan government which was supposed to start serving on 28 April 1992. Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and Afghan Civil War (1989–1992) are 1989 in Afghanistan, Afghanistan–Soviet Union relations and Battles involving the Tajiks.

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Afghan Civil War (1992–1996)

The 1992–1996 Afghan Civil War, also known as the Second Afghan Civil War, took place between 28 April 1992—the date a new interim Afghan government was supposed to replace the Republic of Afghanistan of President Mohammad Najibullah—and the Taliban's occupation of Kabul establishing the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan on 27 September 1996. Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and Afghan Civil War (1992–1996) are Battles involving Afghanistan and Battles involving the Tajiks.

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Afghan conflict

The Afghan conflict (دافغانستان جنګونه; درگیری افغانستان) refers to the series of events that have kept Afghanistan in a near-continuous state of armed conflict since the 1970s.

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Afghan mujahideen

The Afghan mujahideen (translit; translit) were Islamist resistance groups that fought against the Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War and the subsequent First Afghan Civil War.

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Afghanistan–Uzbekistan Friendship Bridge

The Afghanistan–Uzbekistan Friendship Bridge is a road–rail bridge across the Oxus River in Central Asia, connecting the town of Hairatan in Afghanistan with the town of Termez in Uzbekistan. Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and Afghanistan–Uzbekistan Friendship Bridge are Afghanistan–Soviet Union relations and Soviet–Afghan War.

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Ahmad Shah Massoud

Ahmad Shah Massoud (Dari:,; September 2, 1953September 9, 2001) was an Afghan military leader and politician.

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Alexander Yakovlev

Alexander Nikolayevich Yakovlev (Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Я́ковлев; 2 December 1923 – 18 October 2005) was a Soviet and Russian politician, diplomat, and historian. Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and Alexander Yakovlev are perestroika.

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Andrei Gromyko

Andrei Andreyevich Gromyko (Андрей Андреевич Громыко; Андрэй Андрэевіч Грамыка; – 2 July 1989) was a Soviet politician and diplomat during the Cold War.

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Army General (Soviet rank)

Army general (general armii) was a rank of the Soviet Union which was first established in June 1940 as a high rank for Red Army generals, inferior only to the marshal of the Soviet Union.

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Babrak Karmal

Babrak Karmal (Dari/Pashto:; born Sultan Hussein; 6 January 1929 – 1 or 3 December 1996) was an Afghan communist revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Afghanistan, serving in the post of general secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1986.

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Boris Gromov

Boris Vsevolodovich Gromov (Бори́с Все́володович Гро́мов; born 7 November 1943) is a Russian politician and former military officer.

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Boris Yeltsin

Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (Борис Николаевич Ельцин,; 1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and Boris Yeltsin are perestroika.

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BTR-80

The BTR-80 (armoured carrier) is an 8×8 wheeled amphibious armoured personnel carrier (APC) designed in the Soviet Union.

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Central Intelligence Agency

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), known informally as the Agency, metonymously as Langley and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT) and conducting covert action through its Directorate of Operations.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

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Democratic Republic of Afghanistan

The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA), renamed the Republic of Afghanistan in 1987, was the Afghan state during the one-party rule of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) from 1978 to 1992. Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and Democratic Republic of Afghanistan are Soviet–Afghan War.

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Dissolution of the Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.

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Durand Line

The Durand Line (د ډیورنډ کرښه; ڈیورنڈ لائن; خط دیورند), also known as the Afghanistan–Pakistan border, is a international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan in South Asia.

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Eduard Shevardnadze

Eduard Ambrosis dze Shevardnadze (ედუარდ ამბროსის ძე შევარდნაძე, romanized:; 25 January 1928 – 7 July 2014) was a Soviet and Georgian politician and diplomat who governed Georgia for several non-consecutive periods from 1972 until his resignation in 2003 and also served as the final Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1985 to 1990.

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First Chief Directorate

The First Main Directorate of the Committee for State Security under the USSR council of ministers (PGU KGB) was the organization responsible for foreign operations and intelligence activities by providing for the training and management of covert agents, intelligence collection administration, and the acquisition of foreign and domestic political, scientific and technical intelligence for the Soviet Union.

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General officer

A general officer is an officer of high rank in the armies, and in some nations' air forces, space forces, and marines or naval infantry.

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General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU).

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Geneva Accords (1988)

The Geneva Accords were the agreements on the settlement of the situation relating to Afghanistan, were signed on 14 April 1988 at the Geneva headquarters of the United Nations, between Afghanistan and Pakistan, with the United States and the Soviet Union serving as guarantors. Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and Geneva Accords (1988) are 1988 in Afghanistan, 1988 in the Soviet Union, Afghanistan–Soviet Union relations, military government of Pakistan (1977–1988) and Pakistan–Soviet Union relations.

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George Shultz

George Pratt Shultz (December 13, 1920February 6, 2021) was an American economist, businessman, diplomat and statesman.

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Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (born 1 August 1949) is an Afghan politician, and former mujahideen leader and drug trafficker.

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The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) was an arms control treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union (and its successor state, the Russian Federation). Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty are perestroika.

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Islamabad

Islamabad (اسلام‌آباد|translit.

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Islamism

Islamism (also often called political Islam) refers to a broad set of religious and political ideological movements.

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Jamiat-e Islami

Jamayat-E-Islami (also rendered as Jamiat-e-Islami and Jamiati Islami; lit), sometimes shortened to Jamiat, is a predominantly Tajik political party and former paramilitary organisation in Afghanistan.

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Kabul

Kabul is the capital city of Afghanistan.

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Leonid Brezhnev

Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (19 December 1906– 10 November 1982) was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982, and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet (head of state) from 1960 to 1964 and again from 1977 to 1982.

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Marxism

Marxism is a political philosophy and method of socioeconomic analysis.

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (2 March 1931 – 30 August 2022) was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991.

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Mikoyan MiG-27

The Mikoyan MiG-27 (Микоян МиГ-27; NATO reporting name: Flogger-D/J) was a variable-sweep ground-attack aircraft, originally built by the Mikoyan-Gurevich design bureau in the Soviet Union and later licence-produced in India by Hindustan Aeronautics as the Bahadur ("Valiant").

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Milton Bearden

Milton Bearden is an American author, film consultant, and former CIA officer.

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Mohammad Najibullah

Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai (Pashto/محمد نجیب‌الله احمدزی,; 6 August 1947 – 27 September 1996), commonly known as Dr.

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Mujahideen

Mujahideen, or Mujahidin (mujāhidīn), is the plural form of mujahid (strugglers or strivers, doers of jihād), an Arabic term that broadly refers to people who engage in jihad, interpreted in a jurisprudence of Islam as the fight on behalf of God, religion or the community (ummah). Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and Mujahideen are Soviet–Afghan War.

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National Reconciliation (Afghanistan)

National Reconciliation is the term used for establishment of so-called 'national unity' in countries beset with political problems.

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Pakistan

Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia.

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People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan

The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) was a Marxist–Leninist political party in Afghanistan established on 1 January 1965. Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan are Soviet–Afghan War.

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Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (abbreviated), or Politburo (p) was the highest political body of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and de facto a collective presidency of the USSR.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Scud missile

A Scud missile is one of a series of tactical ballistic missiles developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

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South Asia

South Asia is the southern subregion of Asia, which is defined in both geographical and ethnic-cultural terms.

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Soviet Armed Forces

The Soviet Armed Forces, also known as the Armed Forces of the Soviet Union, the Red Army (1918–1946) and the Soviet Army (1946–1991), were the armed forces of the Russian SFSR (1917–1922) and the Soviet Union (1922–1991) from their beginnings in the Russian Civil War of 1917–1923 to the collapse of the USSR in 1991.

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Soviet Central Asia

Soviet Central Asia (Sovetskaya Srednyaya Aziya) was the part of Central Asia administered by the Soviet Union between 1918 and 1991, when the Central Asian republics declared independence.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Soviet Union–United States relations

Relations between the Soviet Union and the United States were fully established in 1933 as the succeeding bilateral ties to those between the Russian Empire and the United States, which lasted from 1776 until 1917; they were also the predecessor to the current bilateral ties between the Russian Federation and the United States that began in 1992 after the end of the Cold War.

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Soviet–Afghan War

The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between Soviet Union, the DRA and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters. Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and Soviet–Afghan War are Afghanistan–Soviet Union relations.

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Station chief

A station chief is a government official who is the head of a team, post or function usually in a foreign country.

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Taliban

The Taliban (lit), which also refers to itself by its state name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is an Afghan militant movement with an ideology comprising elements of Pashtun nationalism and the Deobandi movement of Islamic fundamentalism.

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Third World

The term "Third World" arose during the Cold War to define countries that remained non-aligned with either NATO or the Warsaw Pact.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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United States Department of State

The United States Department of State (DOS), or simply the State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations.

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United States Secretary of State

The United States secretary of state (SecState) is a member of the executive branch of the federal government and the head of the Department of State.

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The Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic, also known as Soviet Uzbekistan, the Uzbek SSR, UzSSR, or simply Uzbekistan and rarely Uzbekia, was a union republic of the Soviet Union. It was governed by the Uzbek branch of the Soviet Communist Party, the legal political party, from 1925 until 1990. From 1990 to 1991, it was a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with its own legislation.

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Vadim Kirpichenko

Vadim Alekseyevich Kirpichenko (Вадим Алексеевич Кирпиченко, 25 September 1922 – 3 December 2005) was a Russian officer of the First Chief Directorate of the KGB and its successor, the Foreign Intelligence Service.

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Vadim Zagladin

Vadim Valentinovich Zagladin (June 23, 1927 – November 17, 2006) was a Soviet and Russian politician and ideologist and one of the leading theoreticians of perestroika.

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Valentin Varennikov

Valentin Ivanovich Varennikov (Валентин Иванович Варенников) (December 15, 1923 – May 6, 2009) was a Soviet/Russian Army general and politician, best known for being one of the planners and leaders of the Soviet–Afghan War, as well as one of the instigators of the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt.

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Vladimir Kryuchkov

Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kryuchkov (Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Крючко́в; 29 February 1924 – 23 November 2007) was a Soviet lawyer, diplomat, and head of the KGB, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

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White House

The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States.

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1990 Afghan coup attempt

The 1990 Afghan coup d'etat attempt occurred on March 6, 1990, when General Shahnawaz Tanai, a hardline communist and Khalqist who served as Minister of Defence, attempted to overthrow President Mohammad Najibullah of the Republic of Afghanistan.

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1991 Soviet coup attempt

The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, also known as the August Coup, was a failed attempt by hardliners of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) to forcibly seize control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev, who was Soviet President and General Secretary of the CPSU at the time.

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2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan

The United States Armed Forces completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan on 30 August 2021, marking the end of the 2001–2021 war. Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan and 2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan are military withdrawals.

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40th Army (Soviet Union)

The 40th Army (40-ya obshchevoyskovaya armiya, "40th Combined Arms Army") of the Soviet Ground Forces was an army-level command that participated in World War II from 1941 to 1945 and was reformed specifically for the Soviet–Afghan War from 1979 to circa 1990.

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See also

1988 in Afghanistan

• 1988 Afghan parliamentary election
• 1988 in Afghanistan
• Battle for Hill 3234
• Geneva Accords (1988)
• Operation Arrow
• Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
• Soyuz TM-6

1989 in Afghanistan

• 1989 in Afghanistan
• Afghan Civil War (1989–1992)
• Battle of Jalalabad (1989)
• Operation Typhoon (1989)
• Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan

1989 in the Soviet Union

• 16th Moscow International Film Festival
• 1989 Belgium MiG-23 crash
• 1989 Moldovan civil unrest
• 1989 Soviet census
• 1989 Soviet nuclear tests
• 1989 Sukhumi riots
• 1989 in Estonia
• 1989 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
• 1989 in the Soviet Union
• 1989–1991 Ukrainian revolution
• Baltic Way
• Clownery
• Congress of Estonia
• Crimean Tatar repatriation
• Friendship Flight '89
• Granat
• Intergirl
• Intermovement
• International Front of the Working People of Latvia
• Khomeini's letter to Mikhail Gorbachev
• Kosmos 2001
• Kosmos 2044
• Kosmos 2050
• List of Soviet films of 1989
• Malta Summit
• Mir EO-4
• Mir EO-5
• Moscow Music Peace Festival
• Operation Behemoth
• Polish autonomy in the Vilnius Region
• Posledniy geroy
• Progress 40
• Progress 41
• Progress M-1
• Progress M-2
• Soviet submarine K-131
• Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets
• Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
• Soyuz TM-8
• TS Maxim Gorkiy
• The Baltics Are Waking Up
• The Witches Cave
• US/USSR Joint Statement on Uniform Acceptance of Rules of International Law Governing Innocent Passage
• Ufa train disaster
• Voronezh UFO incident

Afghanistan–Soviet Union relations

• 1979 Herat uprising
• 99th Missile Brigade
• Afghan Civil War (1989–1992)
• Afghanistan–Uzbekistan Friendship Bridge
• Badaber uprising
• Bagram Airfield
• Darunta Dam
• Gang of Four (Afghanistan)
• Geneva Accords (1988)
• Interkosmos
• KHAD
• Kabul International Airport
• Kabul Library
• Kabul–Jalalabad Road
• Kandahar–Herat Highway
• Khost International Airport
• Kokari-Sharshari
• List of Soviet aircraft losses during the Soviet–Afghan War
• M41 highway
• Marmoul offensives
• Mir EP-3
• Naghlu Dam
• Operation Trap
• Ponizovsky House
• Pul-e-Charkhi prison
• Red Army intervention in Afghanistan (1929)
• Red Army intervention in Afghanistan (1930)
• Salang Tunnel
• Sarda Dam
• Sardeh Band Airport
• Shindand Air Base
• Shuravi
• Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
• Soviet–Afghan War
• Soyuz TM-6
• Tajbeg Palace assault
• Tang-e Gharu
• Tillya Tepe
• United Nations General Assembly Resolution 37/37
• United Nations Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan
• United Nations Security Council Resolution 462
• United Nations Security Council Resolution 622
• United Nations Security Council Resolution 647

Battles involving the Tajiks

• Afghan Civil War (1928–1929)
• Afghan Civil War (1989–1992)
• Afghan Civil War (1992–1996)
• Afghan Civil War (1996–2001)
• Battle of Andkhud
• Battle of Chandawar
• Battle of Ghazni (1148)
• Battle of Ghazni (1151)
• Battle of Jhelum (1206)
• Battle of Kasahrada (1197)
• Battle of Sheikh Ali (1889)
• Battle of Zava
• First Battle of Tarain
• Ghurid dynasty
• Ghurid invasion of Bengal
• Kart dynasty
• Operation Arrow
• Panjshir offensives (Soviet–Afghan War)
• Red Army intervention in Afghanistan (1929)
• Second Battle of Tarain
• Siege of Kalinjar
• Siege of Lahore (1186)
• Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan

Military operations involving the Soviet Union

• 1921 Persian coup d'état
• 1932 armed uprising in Mongolia
• 1982 Harmak incident
• Battle of Shumshu
• East German uprising of 1953
• Invasion of the Kuril Islands
• Operation Curtain
• Operation Ivory Coast
• Operation Magistral
• Operation Ring
• Operation Trikora
• Operation Zet
• Pakistan–Soviet air confrontations
• Proposed Soviet invasion of Hokkaido
• Red Army intervention in Afghanistan (1929)
• Red Army intervention in Afghanistan (1930)
• Soviet OMON assaults on Lithuanian border posts
• Soviet invasion of Poland
• Soviet invasion of South Sakhalin
• Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
• Timeline of the 1939 invasion of Poland

Military withdrawals

• 1842 retreat from Kabul
• 2014 retreat from Western Bahr el Ghazal
• 2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
• Great Retreat
• Great Retreat (Serbia)
• Great Siberian Ice March
• Ice March
• Israeli disengagement from Gaza
• Liberation of Kherson
• Operation Berlin (Arnhem)
• Operation Ke
• Palioxis
• Roman withdrawal from Africa (255 BC)
• Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
• Steppe March
• Withdrawal (military)
• Withdrawal from Aden
• Withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan (2011–2016)
• Withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq (2007–2011)
• Withdrawal of United States troops from Iraq (2020–2021)
• Withdrawal through Andalal (1741)

Pakistan–Soviet Union relations

• 1960 U-2 incident
• 1972 visit by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto to the Soviet Union
• Badaber uprising
• Battle for Hill 3234
• Death of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
• Embassy of Russia, Islamabad
• Geneva Accords (1988)
• Guddu Thermal Power Station
• Movement for the Restoration of Democracy
• Oil & Gas Development Company
• Operation Cyclone
• Pakistan Mission Control Centre
• Pakistan Steel Mills
• Pakistan–Soviet Union relations
• Peshawar Conspiracy Cases
• Rawalpindi conspiracy
• Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
• Tang-e Gharu
• Tashkent Declaration
• United Nations Good Offices Mission in Afghanistan and Pakistan
• United Nations Security Council Resolution 622
• United Nations Security Council Resolution 647

Perestroika

• 1989 Soviet Union legislative election
• 1990 Russian Supreme Soviet election
• 1991 Russian presidential referendum
• 1991 Soviet Union referendum
• 19th All-Union Conference of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• 28th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
• Abel Aganbegyan
• Alexander Yakovlev
• All-Ukrainian environmental campaign
• Andrei Sakharov
• Boris Yeltsin
• Congress of People's Deputies of Russia
• Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union
• Democratic Russia
• Demokratizatsiya (Soviet Union)
• Drug policy of the Soviet Union
• Glasnost
• Group of Soviet Forces in Germany
• Inter-regional Deputies Group
• Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
• Khochu peremen
• Little Vera
• Monetary reform in the Soviet Union, 1991
• Moscow Music Peace Festival
• New Union Treaty
• New political thinking
• Parade of sovereignties
• Perestroika
• President of the Soviet Union
• Presidential Council of the Soviet Union
• Prohibition in the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
• START I
• Security Council of the Soviet Union
• Sex et perestroika
• Singing Revolution
• Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
• Stanislav Shatalin
• State Committee on the State of Emergency
• State Council of the Soviet Union
• Uskorenie
• Uzbek cotton scandal
• Vzglyad (Russian TV program)
• Wind of Change (Scorpions song)

Soviet–Afghan War

• 1980 Summer Olympics boycott
• 1980 student protests in Kabul
• 1982 Harmak incident
• 1982 Salang Tunnel fire
• Afghanistan–Uzbekistan Friendship Bridge
• Afghanka
• Allegations of CIA assistance to Osama bin Laden
• Badaber uprising
• Charles Fernley Fawcett
• Dawa'a al-Jihad
• Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
• Foreign involvement in the Soviet–Afghan War
• Kiligai
• List of Soviet aircraft losses during the Soviet–Afghan War
• List of military equipment used by the mujahideen during the Soviet–Afghan War
• Longshoremen v. Allied Int'l, Inc.
• Mujahideen
• New Great Game
• Operation Cyclone
• Pakistan International Airlines Flight 326
• Pakistan–Soviet air confrontations
• People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan
• Raids inside the Soviet Union during the Soviet–Afghan War
• Sharafat Kuh Front
• Shindand SuperCobra incident
• Shuravi
• Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
• Soviet–Afghan War
• The Photographer (comics)
• United Kingdom in the Soviet–Afghan War
• United Nations Security Council Resolution 622
• United Nations Security Council Resolution 647
• United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union
• War crimes in the Soviet–Afghan War
• White Tights
• Women in the Soviet–Afghan War

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_withdrawal_from_Afghanistan

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