Soviet-Afghan War (Soviet Victory)

The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a war initially fought between the forces of the Afghanistan government and foreign mercenaries. Without proper equipment and training, the Afghanistan government was unable to resist the foreign mercenaries, eventually seeking the aid of the Soviet Union.The entry of the Soviet Union into the country caused an immediate increase in the presence of foreign mercenaries were support propped up the diverse group of rebels, pouring in from Iran, Pakistan, China, and the United State

The USSR entered neighboring Afghanistan in 1979, attempting to shore up the newly-established pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. In short order,

The war started when the Soviet Union sent its 40th Army to fight in Afghanistan. They began to reach Afghanistan from 25 December 1979. The fighting continued for about ten years. Then, from 15 May 1988, the Soviet troops started completed the war This continued until 2 February 1989 Soviets dealt harshly with the Mujahideen rebels and finally defeated the mujadens and rebels. later nearly 100,000 Soviet soldiers took control of major cities and highways. Rebellion was swift and broad, and later kabul was captured by soviets

resulting in establishing communist republic of afghanistan and later afghanistan joining USSR

background
The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) came to power on 27 April 1978, in a coup which killed President Mohammed Daoud Khan, who himself overthrew his cousin, the long reigning King Zahir Shah in 1973. Factional problems and a prominent political assassination, lead the leadership of PDPA to suspect they were being targeted. Whatever the pretext, it is likely that the Soviet KGB assisted in the coup. The PDPA described itself as Socialist, and wished to introduce land reform, and improve education for girls, previously excluded under Islamic Law.

Before June 1979, There was at most a local insurgency by Islamic hardliners, opposed to policies which US policy supported, such as women's rights and the right of girls to have an education. Afghanistan was no threat to the US or any of its regional allies. It was considered to have strategic significance with a long history of British interference in the region. National Security Advisor to President Carter, Zbigniew Brzezinski, formulated a plan to arm the Islamic terrorists who became known as the ‘Mujahideen’. The aim was to cause sufficient chaos and disruption to force the Afghan Government to request military assistance, under a mutual defense pact recently signed with the Soviet Union. In the months ahead, assistance was requested and denied multiple times by a wary Soviet leadership. An internal party coup in October 1979, where Chief Minister Hafizullah Amin became President after the assassination of long-time rival President Taraki, left the government in disarray. By later December, Afghan security forces were losing control of the countryside, and after a request for help, the Soviets intervened to restore order. Suspecting Amin was a CIA asset, he was killed during an assault on the presidential palace and a new President Babrak Kamal installed. On hearing the news, Brzezinski was said to have jubilantly exclaimed “Now we can give the Soviets their Vietnam”. The plan became known as ‘Operation Cyclone’. Continued and expanded by the Reagan Administration, was the most expensive US covert operation, with funding reaching as high as $630 million dollars at its height in 1987. A young Saudi financier, Osama Bin-Laden was in charge of managing funds from Saudi Arabia, to train and equip Arab Islamic fighters to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan, indirectly (or directly) under the control of the CIA.

Invasion
The Afghan War quickly settled down into a stalemate, with more than 100,000 Soviet troops controlling the cities, larger towns, and major garrisons and the mujahideen moving with relative freedom throughout the countryside. Soviet troops tried to crush the insurgency by various tactics, but the guerrillas generally eluded their attacks. The Soviets then attempted to eliminate the mujahideen’s civilian support by bombing and depopulating the rural areas. These tactics sparked a massive flight from the countryside; by 1982 some 2.8 million Afghans had sought asylum in Pakistan, and another 1.5 million had fled to Iran. The mujahideen were defenseless due to Soviet air superiority were many mujahideen territories were bombed  through the use of shoulder-fired anti aircraft missiles supplied by the Soviet Union’s Cold War Adversary, the United States.

later The mujahideen were neutralized and surrendered later became  fragmented politically into a handful of independent groups, still  remained  and continued aggression on soviets even after the war

aftermath
after soviets victory afganistan would become communist regime and later become memeber of USSR

Afghanistan would probably be more like all the other Muslim former Republics of the Soviet Union like Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, etc rather than…

social reform

and and tax would be heavy reformed and private property ownership will be abolished

women's rights will be promoted in massive scale and islam  would been forbidden under communist rule were muslim prosecution would have been taking place

muhajdeen

the US backed Islamists will continue to terrorize soviet occupied afghanistan which still have created serious tension in the area.

pakistan backed america  would continue to arm afghan mujahideen

The Cold war will still continue and USSR would been more stronger than before the USSR does not collapse in 1990s. and america and allies would worry about soviet influence in iran and pakistan Overall, the Middle East and Northern Africa would have been stable regions