SOVIET WITHDRAWAL

The Soviets conduct a carefully planned withdrawal from Afghanistan in two phases. They continue to supply the

DRA but the regime falls in 1992 and the country descends into civil war. The Soviet-afghan conflict is also a major contributing factor in the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

Soviet armoured personnel vehicles cross a bridge on the Soviet-afghan border during the withdrawal of the Red Army, 21 May 1988