Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was a 10-year war fought between the Soviet Army and rebels in Afghanistan. The war is generally held to have started December 24, 1979. Soviet troops ultimately withdrew from the area between May 15, 1988 and February 2, 1989. The Soviet Union officially announced that all of its troops had left Afghanistan on February 15, 1989.

Cinema

• Rambo 3 was a movie set within the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
• The Beast is a movie made in 1989 about a Soviet T-62 tank during the invasion of Afghanistan, set in 1981.
• Afghan Breakdown/Afghanskij Izlom is a movie made by Italy and USSR in 1990 about the invasion of Afghanistan, where one of the main role plays Michele Placido known from Italian mafia TV series The Octopus/La Piovra.
• The James Bond movie The Living Daylights, made in 1987 with Timothy Dalton as Bond, was partly set in Soviet-occupied Afghanistan.
• 9th Company the first attempt by Russian cinema to produce a big-screen, big-budget move about the Soviet experience in Afghanistan.