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Name: Afghan campaign of the Red Army (1930)

Type: Event

Start: 1930 AD

End: 1930 AD

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Was a Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan to destroy the economic bases of the Basmachi Movement.

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  • June 1930: At the end of June 1930, the combined cavalry brigade of the Red Army under the command of the brigade commander Yakov Melkumov, crossed the Amu Darya, entering Afghanistan. Not meeting on its way opposition from the local authorities and the regular Afghan army, the Soviet detachment advanced 50-70 km inland.
  • July 1930: The Soviet forces left the territories they had occupied in northern Afghanistan.

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