Gunman Airsoft are proud to announce Operation - "Red Mist", inspired from the events of the Soviet Union’s involvement in the civil war in Afghanistan between 1978 and 1989, and is part of the Gunman Airsoft series of Cold War Filmsim Events.
The movement by the Soviet Union into Afghanistan was viewed by both the United States and Great Britain as a move to take control of the Persian Gulf; neither country was prepared to let this happen. But, besides providing huge sums of cash and stock piles of weapons to the Mujahideen who were trying to cause an uprising and the end of the communist reign in Afghanistan there was very little else that the Coalition could do. Or was there....
Background
The Soviets involvement in Afghanistan began on 7th August 1978. They were asked to provide support to the Marxist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) government against the Mujahideen resistance. It wasn’t actually until the 16th June 1979 that the soviet army sent a detachment of tanks to guard the government in Kabul and to secure the airfields at Bagram and Shindard. An airborne battalion was then deployed to Bagram airbase on 7th July 1979 acting as technical specialist’s they went in without any combat gear and were detailed to provide personal protection for the Afghan president, President Taraki. The Soviet Union fully committed to the war in Afghanistan in December 1979 in order to preserve the communist regime, which was seriously under threat by the Mujahideen.
This move by the Soviet Union was seen not as an isolated event to secure Afghanistan as a communist regime but as a threat to the Persian Gulf. This persuaded the United States to become involved and provide support for the Mujahideen in trying to topple the communist government and create an independent Afghanistan. Initially this support was purely financial, and although no major US or British forces were deployed to Afghanistan some US Special Forces units along with the SAS and CIA were used as “Special Advisors” to the Mujahideen.