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Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan

The pull-out of Soviet forces from Afghanistan, May 1988 to 15 February 1989, ending a war begun in December 1979.

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Dates
15 May 1988 – 15 Feb 1989
Place
Afghanistan
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Withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan

The Soviet Union sent troops into Afghanistan in December 1979. After nearly ten years of war, more than 14,000 Soviet soldiers dead and far greater Afghan losses, the last forces left on 15 February 1989.

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  1. 15 May 1988 – 15 Feb 1989 Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
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  1. 26th Anniversary: Last Soviet Forces Withdraw From Afghanistan, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, 16 Feb 2015. Scholarship & press
    On February 15, 1989, Soviet forces officially completed the nine-month process of leaving Afghanistan. The withdrawal came after nearly a decade of war, which had killed more than 14,000 Soviet soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Afghan combatants and civilians.
  2. The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the U.S. Response, 1978-1980 (Milestones), U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian. Primary record
    Instead, it took ten years of grinding insurgency before Moscow finally withdrew, at the cost of millions of lives and billions of dollars.
    At the end of December 1979, the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country.
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