Day of the Defeat of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan

Afghanistan News
16th of Salwagha [11th month of Afghan calendar]:
Day of the Defeat of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan

14 February 2025

Exactly 36 years ago, on this day, the occupying forces of the former Soviet Union were forced to withdraw from Afghanistan after nearly ten years of bloody and destructive violence.

In this nearly ten-year disaster, millions of Afghans were martyred, disabled or forced into exile.

The country’s institutions were destroyed, society was destabilized and order was disrupted.

The Afghan Resistance and the nationwide movement against the Russians forced Moscow to accept a historic defeat and withdraw its terrified and panicked troops from Afghanistan – defensively, politically, economically, and socially.

The Afghan Mujahideen and the selfless people fighting against the Russians were finally able to turn the Kremlin’s engineered plan into a hot water tank, making them retreat via the port of Hairatan on the country’s northern border.

[After almost a decade of occupation, in February 1989…the Soviet Union completed withdrawal of its combat forces across the Friendship Bridge from the Afghan city of Hairatan into Termez, Uzbekistan.
https://origins.osu.edu/milestones/december-2014-what-they-left-behind-soviet-union-afghanistan]

This historical story of the Afghan Mujahideen people against the Russians ended with the withdrawal taken by General Boris Gromov at the port of Hairatan.

This fierce jihadi resistance of the Afghans challenged the entire authority of the Kremlin, removed it from the ranks of its rivals and dismantled the military, political and economic power built in the name of the former Soviet Union, leading to its collapse. It is now known as the Russian Federation.