The Soviet Invasion Of Afghanistan’s Reasons And Historical Lessons

In December1979,the world’s largest socialist country Soviet union launched a war in Afghanistan,at the end, the war not only caused a huge destructive effects to the whole world,even in this21st century, people didn’t completely get rid of the vestiges of the war. However, for the real intention of the war differfent authors hold different opinions.Of couese, we have to admit that due to the particularity of this period of history, it’s difficult for us to get in touch with firsthand material, so the earlier arguers can only be based on some publicly reports or comments.But, the truth of the history, after all, will be exposed by people.In recent years, the publish of the Soviet archives, enabled us to see the past many top secret documents, especially about the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan the policy making and some meeting minutes, base on these you can find the real intention of the war. The main purpose of this writing is based on the original files newly declassified and important meeting record, reviewing this history, find the real reason of the Soviet union in Afghanistan, more emphasis the authenticity of the data, rather than just report or comment. Therefore, the first chapter discusses the international strategic position of the Afghan; the second chapter presents the backgrounds and the main processes of the Soviet from invasion to withdraw Afghanistan; the third chapter on the basis of the first two chapters analyze the real causes of the Soviet union invasion Afghanistan; the fourth chapter describes all aspects of the influence of the Soviet invasion to Afghanistan, the fifth chapter summarizes the historical lessons.Finally,it is concluded that the Soviet invasion to Afghanistan’s decision is in order to defend the country’s southern border security rather than the so-called looking south sea, and draw lessons from history bases on the effects so far.