Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Tarayyar Soviet, tare da sauran ƙasashe, sun kasance masu goyon bayan kai tsaye na sabuwar gwamnatin Afghanistan bayan Juyin Juya Halin Saur
a watan Afrilu na shekarar 1978. Koyaya, gyare-gyare irin na Soviet da gwamnati ta gabatar kamar canje-canje a al'adun aure da gyaran ƙasa ba a karɓa da kyau ta hanyar yawan mutanen da ke zurfafa cikin al'ada da Islama ba. Halin zalunci na Jamhuriyar Demokradiyyar Afghanistan, wanda ya kashe fursunonin siyasa kuma ya tsarkake gwamnati daga duk wani adawa, an kuma ga shi ba daidai ba ne daga jama'ar Afghanistan. A shekarar 1979, fada tsakanin gwamnatin Afghanistan da wasu bangarori daban-daban a cikin kasar, wasu daga cikinsu Amurka da wasu kasashe suka goyi bayan su, sun haifar da yakin basasa kuma a cikin kiran waya zuwa Kremlin a watan Maris na 1979 firaministan Afghanistan Nur Muhammad Taraki ya nemi taimakon soja. Firayim Ministan Soviet Alexei Kosygin ya ƙi wannan a madadin Politburo.