series of assassinations of leaders, first mohammed daoud and then nur mohammed taraki, bring hafizullah aminnner of democratic ideas. relations with the union and strengthen cooperation with the arab world, the united states and western european countries. the soviet union fears the emergence of nato bases near its southern borders. in the meantime, islamic fundamentalism is growing stronger, and this is another threat to the union. our country could find itself in an undesirable neighborhood when, under the banner of islam, muslim fundamentalists began to rock the situation in soviet, central asian republics. and this is what historians believe. would have caused a civil war in tajikistan already in the 1970s. in the ussr they believe that in afghanistan it is necessary to bring a loyal character to power, the socialist babrah karmal would be suitable. in 1978, after the outbreak of the civil war, he was sent as ambassador to czechoslovakia. they were not going to kill amin, but to push him aside. on the democratic party of afghanistan, the soviet union begins to send a limited contingent o

the pdpa was headed by hafizullah amin.ry intelligence received information that amin was secretly negotiating with the americans and... the americans are allegedly already ready to transfer their troops to afghanistan. of course, we could not warn either vysotsky, or grebenchukov, or the soviet intelligentsia about this, and they would not have believed it. well, the soviet government decided to eliminate amin. what happened as a result of operation storm 333. on december 27 , the soviet assault group, gru special forces, kgb, desantura and the muslim, so-called battalion, numbering about 700 soldiers, took amin’s in 45 minutes. their allies under the warsaw pact, on the territory of afghanistan the soviet union faced not only the resistance of the dushmans, but with their support from western europe, the usa and pakistan. unlike us, the united states brought many of its nato allies there. at the same time, if american ears stuck out behind the dushmans when we fought there, we did not meddle in afghan affairs during those