Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei waahanga - Whai muri i te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao, i hangaia e te Basileia o Afghanistan me te Soviet Union he whanaungatanga hoa, a ko te whakamutunga i awhina nui me te whanaketanga ki Afghanistan. Whai muri i te Huringa Saur
, i hainatia e ngā whenua e rua he tiriti hoa i te tau 1978. I te tau 1979 ka uru atu te Soviet Union ki Afghanistan me te Operation Storm-333. Ko tenei mahi he urupare kino i roto i te nuinga o te ao Mahometa e whakaaro ana he whakaekenga, me te awhina ki te heke o te angitu o Afghanistan me te whakakaha i nga waahanga pakari i roto i te whenua. I hinga te kawanatanga o Afghanistan i tautokohia e Ruhia i te tau 1992. Heoi, kua pai ake nga hononga a Ruhia-Afghan i nga tau whai muri i te pakanga. I tēnei wā, he karere a Rūhia ki Kabul, he karere-nui ki Mazar-e-Sharif, ā, he karere a Afghanistan ki Moscow.