Modern Era · Central Asia · War
1989
Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
February 15, 1989
The last Soviet armored column rolled north across the Friendship Bridge at Termez, ending a nine-year war that had killed fifteen thousand Soviet soldiers and a million Afghans. General Boris Gromov was the last man over the bridge. It was a defeat, though nobody quite said so. Within three years the USSR itself would be gone.
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Also in 1989 (8 other events on record)
- Berners-Lee proposes the Web · Europe · Technology
- Berlin Wall falls · Europe · Politics
- Tiananmen Square massacre · East Asia · Politics
- Beginning of Tiananmen protests · East Asia · Politics
- Velvet Revolution begins in Prague · Europe · Politics
- Ceausescu executed · Europe · Politics
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