Last Soviet Troops Leaving Afghanistan, 1989. Photo from The BBCRussia Marks 20th Anniversary Of Soviet Pullout From Afghanistan -- RIA Novosti
MOSCOW, February 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia is celebrating on Sunday the 20th anniversary of the Soviet troops' withdrawal from Afghanistan.
On February 15, 1989, the last Soviet troops left Afghanistan, nine years after they swept into the country.
Ceremonies will be held all across Russia to lay flowers at the tombs of Soviet soldiers and officers who died in the Afghan war.
The war in Afghanistan was a nine-year conflict involving Soviet forces supporting the Marxist PDPA (People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan) government against the largely Islamic fundamentalist Mujahideen insurgents.
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