During the 10-year war, the Soviets lost 15,052 soldiers, with another 53,753 wounded and 417 missing without trace and have lost between two to three billion dollars a year.
Explanation:
Few people in the 1980s could have imagined that the Soviet war in Afghanistan (1979–89) would be a direct introduction to the destruction of an entire system of thought and action, that it would change not only the military or economic but also the global ideological map of our planet. offering nothing in return, no valid alternative.
Soviet interference in the Afghan civil war, there is no more dilemma, there was no - invasion.
It was a legitimate response to a call from Kabul authorities at the time to help them fight extremist Islamists, aided by military and weapons backed by the US and their allies. Something like Russia's current role in Syria's war-torn country.
Objectively, the USSR could not stay out of the war in its immediate neighborhood, and then President Leonid Brezhnev (1906–1982) could not turn out to be a peacemaker. It was a war that, for many reasons, simply could not be won. And, indeed, the result was devastating: as many as 15,052 Soviet military lives were lost, with another 53,753 wounded and 417 missing with no trace. The Afghan army lost about 18,000 people (killed), with some 77,000 wounded. On the rebel side, the death toll goes up to 75,000 to 90,000, with 75,000 wounded. Millions of civilians have been exiled…
Basically, the Afghan war was Afghan by name and only seemingly local in character. It was a real conflict between the US and their allies with the then Soviet state. More specifically, on the one hand, according to official figures, there were: a limited contingent of the Soviet army, and an army of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, with a total power of about 300,000 fighters, and with the partial assistance of India. On the other hand: Sunni Mujahideen, aided by jihadists from other countries, followed by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Japan, USA, United Kingdom, People's Republic of China, Egypt, Federal Republic of Germany, Israel, Libya, France, Turkey and Iran, as well as numerous groups Shiite. From today's perspective, a truly colorful society.
