Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Impact of Afghanistan on USSR
- DEATH TOLL
- 15,000 Soviets killed
30,000 injured. Lots of
casualties, the morale
of the army is affected
by this. What are we
doing this for?
- 9 YEARS OF WAR
- USSR were involved with Afghanistan for 9
years attempting to help the communist
government against Islamic fundamentalists.
It's been a long time.
- AGREEMENT
- UN sponsored peace talks. USSR, Pakistan,
Afghanistan & USA reached an agreement. In 1988
troops were removed from Afghanistan.
- OPPOSITION
- The USA led an international
condemnation of the invasion
- ACHIEVEMENT
- In 1992 a hard-line Islamic fundamentalist
government took over. The Taliban. So, did USR
actually achieve anything by their invasion?