![The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, 1979: Not Trump's Terrorists, Nor Zbig's Warm Water Ports | National Security Archive The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, 1979: Not Trump's Terrorists, Nor Zbig's Warm Water Ports | National Security Archive](https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/styles/wide/public/thumbnails/image/afghan3_0.jpg?itok=9TSvyYRy)
The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, 1979: Not Trump's Terrorists, Nor Zbig's Warm Water Ports | National Security Archive
![Victorious mujahedeen stand atop a Soviet T-55 tank they knocked out while attacking a government post in Kandahar. (Afghan Media Resource Center) | HistoryNet Victorious mujahedeen stand atop a Soviet T-55 tank they knocked out while attacking a government post in Kandahar. (Afghan Media Resource Center) | HistoryNet](https://www.historynet.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/MIHP-190500-SOVIETS-08.jpg)
Victorious mujahedeen stand atop a Soviet T-55 tank they knocked out while attacking a government post in Kandahar. (Afghan Media Resource Center) | HistoryNet
![File:Russian T54-55 tanks of the Afghan National Army are shown here travelling along Route Pluto, Afghanistan. MOD 45147122.jpg - Wikipedia File:Russian T54-55 tanks of the Afghan National Army are shown here travelling along Route Pluto, Afghanistan. MOD 45147122.jpg - Wikipedia](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7f/Russian_T54-55_tanks_of_the_Afghan_National_Army_are_shown_here_travelling_along_Route_Pluto%2C_Afghanistan._MOD_45147122.jpg)
File:Russian T54-55 tanks of the Afghan National Army are shown here travelling along Route Pluto, Afghanistan. MOD 45147122.jpg - Wikipedia
![One of the many destroyed Soviet tanks in the valley of Panjshir, Afghanistan where the most intense fighting of the Soviet-Afghan war took place. : r/DestroyedTanks One of the many destroyed Soviet tanks in the valley of Panjshir, Afghanistan where the most intense fighting of the Soviet-Afghan war took place. : r/DestroyedTanks](https://i.redd.it/6nk4io06m0x61.jpg)