When Soviet forces crossed the Amu Darya River and landed at Bagram Air Base on December 24, 1979, the Kremlin intended the intervention to last six months and to replace Afghanistan's radical communist leadership with less extreme leaders.
Sources
- Afghanistan: Remembering the Long, Long War We Would Rather Forget (warontherocks.com)
- https://history.state.gov/milestones/1977-1980/soviet-invasion-afghanistan/history.state.gov (history.state.gov)
- https://origins.osu.edu/milestones/december-2014-what-they-left-behind-soviet-union-afghanistan (origins.osu.edu)
- https://afterburner.com.pl/25-dec-1979/ (afterburner.com.pl)
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