The nation that was helpless.
The USSR invaded Afghanistan to expand its borders and gain natural resources, which opposed to popular belief they have plenty of. In the history of Afghanistan, the internal conflict between anti-Communist Muslim guerrillas and the Afghan communist government aided from 1979 to 1989 by Soviet troops.
The roots of the war lay in the overthrow of the centrist Afghanistan government in April 1978 by left-wing military officers, who then handed power over to two political parties, the Khalq and Parcham who together had formed the People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan. Having little popular support, the new government forged close ties with the Soviet Union, launched ruthless purges of all domestic opposition, and began extensive land and social reforms that were bitterly resented by the devoutly Muslim and largely anti-Communist population.
The Soviets then attempted to eliminate the Muslim rebel’s civilian support by bombing and depopulating the rural areas. Their tactics sparked a massive flight from the countryside; by 1982 some 2.8 million Afghans had sought safety in Pakistan, and another 1.5 million had fled to Iran. On the other hand, the US saw the Soviet use of armed force as a serious violation of international law, posing a sharp challenge to US policy as well as to its oil interests and vital sea lanes.
The rebels were eventually able to neutralize Soviet air power through the use of shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles supplied by the United States. The rebels were fragmented politically into a handful of different groups, and their military efforts remained uncoordinated throughout the war.
In 1988 the United States, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Soviet Union signed an agreement for the withdrawal of Soviet troops and the return of Afghanistan to nonaligned status.Afghanistan was the only country to ever defeat the Soviet Union. The Afghans were only able to defeat the Soviet Union and run them out of their country due to the US and allies supplying weapons to them. After the war the Taliban was able to gain control of the country and implement it's tyrannical religious rule.
A time of unseasonably fierce cold and snowstorms, at least 22 Afghan children under the age of 5 have frozen to death at refugee camps in Kabul during the cold war. Without food or comfy homes to live in these children catch diseases rather quickly. These people have to live in houses made of mud. Even during the fierce winter they don't have necessary clothes to cover themselves.