46 years ago today, December 27, 1979 (November 9, 1979 in the lunar calendar), the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and coup d'état. The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan Afghanistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia and a neighbor of the Soviet Union and China. It has an extremely important strategic geographical location. From 1973 to September 1979, the Soviet Union launched three coups in Afghanistan to establish a puppet regime. However, Amin's government, which came to power after the third coup in 1979, is still a stormy regime. In order to consolidate its rule, Amin's government purged the more pro-Soviet banner members of the People's Democratic Party. As a result, the Soviet ruling clique believed that its control of Afghanistan was seriously threatened. At the end of September, Brezhnev decided to intervene armed in Afghanistan. The Soviet Union first sent people to Afghanistan to get rid of the head of the Afghan security forces, the chief of general staff of the army, and Amin's nephew and cousin. In late December, it used deception to disarm the Kabul army. On the evening of the 27th, the Soviet Union tore up the "Treaty of Friendship, Good-Neighborliness and Cooperation between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan" signed with Afghanistan in December 1978, dispatched nearly 100,000 troops to invade Afghanistan, occupied Kabul, and launched a fourth coup, overthrowing the Amin regime and executing Amin's family, supporting Karmal, the leader of the pro-Soviet flag faction and then serving as the ambassador abroad, to take office as the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the People's Democratic Party and Prime Minister of the government. The Soviet Union's armed invasion brought severe disaster to the Afghan people and seriously threatened peace in Asia and the world. The Afghan people have established many resistance groups to fight against invaders with arms. By 1980, the number of anti-Soviet armed forces across the country had reached more than 100,000, controlling 75% of the country's rural areas and regions. The vast majority of countries in the world strongly condemned the Soviet Union's occupation of Afghanistan. On January 14, 1980, the 6th Emergency Special Session of the United Nations adopted a resolution calling for the immediate, unconditional and complete withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. Soviet casualties in Afghanistan reached more than 30,000. After Gorbachev came to power, he decided to withdraw troops from Afghanistan. The Geneva Accords of 14 April 1988 stipulated that the Soviet withdrawal would begin on 15 May 1988 and be completed within nine months. In 1989 Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan. A soviet-made volga cruises through the streets of kabul, afghanistan's pre-civil war capital.