The Soviet-Afghan War begins: Marshal of the Soviet Union Sergey L. Sokolov, commanding a force of 100,000 Red Army Soldiers, invades Afghanistan.
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References:
James Carroll, House of War: The Pentagon and the disastrous rise of American power, (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 371.
Soviet–Afghan War – Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet–Afghan_War
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