Stan187

Yup, the just invited them. And then discussed socialist ideals over tea and crumpets. GET REAL!!! What kind of propaganda are you reading? They made that government themselves. Of course they asked for help, they were Soviet puppets, and being kept alive only because the Soviets propped them up.

Because as we all know, the Soviet Union had an economy it could brag about. Which is why perestroika was never instituted, because economic reform of the mighty Soviet economy was not needed. OH WAIT....




As far as the use of the RPG-29 against Israeli tanks, that is confirmed. That's not what they were really worried about though, more so about Kornet and Metis, known as AT-14 and AT-13 in the West, respectively. The fact the presence of these items is despite evidence, denied by Russia, is irrelevant.

zraver

The Russians went in after a series of coups installed a communist puppet goverment and the locals rebelled. When Amin showed more friendliness towards china and Pakistan the USSR launched it's own coup and killed Amin and his sons.

Ruskiy

Soviets had sent their SpecNaz into Afghanistan, 10 SpecNaz soldiers had unarmed all the guards of the building where Afghani leader was located at that time (over 100 best Afghani guards), killed him, placed their goverment, got out undetected, unfortunately 2 SpecNaz soldiers were detected, they got killed, it was one of the bludiest days in the history of SpecNaz (tehy lost 2 man) but good day for USSR. After that they went to Afghan to make it a better country that they can build economy in and then trade with them.

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Officer of Engineers

Which regiment?

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Stan187

Ruskiy, if you wanna be a big kid, talking on big kid forums, at least educate yourself first. Here, at least read the wikipedia stub:

"Alfa Group or Group A, a special forces (spetsnaz) or special operations detachment OSNAZ unit attached to the KGB was created 29 July 1974 within the First Chief Directorate of the KGB on the orders of Yuri Andropov, then Chairman of the KGB. It was intended for secret foreign operations.

Their most notable mission during the Soviet period was the seizure of Amin's palace in Afghanistan on 27 December 1979, the special operation which began the Afghan war. According to many Russian sources of information (including the memoirs of the Alpha and other compounds' officers that took part in the seizure), the operation was called «Шторм-333» (English: "Storm-333"). Jointly with the Alfa group, called «Гром» (English:Thunder) in that time, which consisted of 24 troops, in the operation took part another special KGB group: «Зенит»(English:Zenith) — 30 troops. Also from the USSR Ministry of Defense in the operation participated so-called Muslim battalion — 520 troops (which consisted exclusively of the soldiers from the southern republics of the USSR) and one Air Landing company—100 troops. In the operation Alfa group lost 2 troops, Zenith group lost 3 troops, Muslim battalion — 5 troops and the Air Landing company — 9 troops; more than 50 were wounded. The Afghan president, Hafizullah Amin and his approximately 200 elite guards were killed. During the operation also other governmental buildings such as the Ministry of Interior building, the Internal Security (KHAD) building and the General Staff building (Darul Aman Palace) were seized. Alpha group's veterans call this operation one of the most successful in the group's history."