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This sign was handed and awarded 70 former military guards separate motorized rifle brigade. that in the period 19979-1988 years in Kandahar during the Soviet-Afghan conflict Afghan War (1979-1989) - the military conflict in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (Republic of Afghanistan in 1987) and government forces in Afghanistan of Soviet forces on the one hand, and numerous armed groups of Afghan mujahideen ("dushmans"), using the political, financial, material and military support for the leading states of NATO and the conservative Islamic world, on the other hand. The term "Afghan war" refers to the traditional for the Soviet and post-Soviet literature and the media symbol for the period of the Soviet Union's military involvement in the armed conflict in Afghanistan. Sam began the conflict in Afghanistan until 1979 and continues to this day (2015). In Western literature, the terms "Soviet Vietnam War" (eng. Soviet Union's Vietnam War) and "bear trap" (eng. Bear Trap) . Soviet Union sent a military contingent in Afghanistan December 25, 1979. Convened shortly UN Security Council at its meeting did not take anti-Soviet resolution prepared by the United States, the Soviet Union vetoed; it was supported by five Member States of the Council. USSR explained his actions by saying that the Soviet military contingent was introduced at the request of the Afghan Government and under the Treaty of Friendship, Good-Neighborliness and Cooperation of December 5, 1978. January 14, 1980 the UN General Assembly at its extraordinary session, adopted a resolution in which it expressed "deep regret", has also expressed concern about the situation of refugees and urged to withdraw "all foreign forces", but the resolution was not binding. Adopted by 108 votes to 14,