Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Masana da asusun tarihi sun ci gaba da cewa Afghanistan ta kasance a ƙarƙashin tasirin Tarayyar Soviet tun farkon 1919 lokacin da Afghanistan ta fara samun taimako don magance Anglosphere na United Kingdom. Babban taimakon fasaha na Soviet, taimakon soja, da kuma dangantakar tattalin arziki sun karu a cikin shekarun 1950 sannan kuma
Juyin Juya Halin Kwaminisanci a shekarun 1970. Tare da barazana ga gwamnatin kwaminisanci ta Afghanistan, gwamnati ta gayyaci mamayar Soviet Union na Afghanistan wanda ya fara kamar yadda tsakar dare ta kusanci a ranar 24 ga Disamba, 1979. Tarayyar Soviet ta shirya wani babban jirgin sama na soja zuwa Kabul, wanda ya hada da kimanin jiragen sama 280 da kuma rabuwa 3 na kusan mutane 8,500. A cikin kwanaki biyu, Tarayyar Soviet ta karɓi iko da Afghanistan, da farko ta tabbatar da Kabul ta hanyar tura rukunin hare-haren Soviet na musamman a gaban Fadar Darulaman, inda sassan sojojin Afghanistan masu biyayya ga Hafizullah Amin suka yi tsayayya, amma na ɗan gajeren lokaci. Tare da mutuwar Amin a fadar, Babrak Karmal, wanda ya yi hijira shugaban kungiyar Parcham na PDPA ya sanya Soviets a matsayin sabon shugaban gwamnatin Afghanistan.