The third of Hoot [solar calendar] which is also called the night of Allahuakbar [God is Great] marked the start of the Kabul uprising against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, which was backed by the former Soviet Union.
45 years have passed but Kabul residents still have memories of the fight and recounted them to TOLOnews.
“People of Kabul wanted full freedom, then and now. On that night, the communists took our youth with themselves and imprisoned them and then killed them,” said Sayed Hossain, a Kabul resident.
“The night that the Allahuakbar uprising started from Chanadwul of Kabul, it led to a country-wide uprising against the Soviet Union. This was the start of a new chapter,” said Juma Khan, another Kabul resident.
The Islamic Emirate’s spokesman called the day “historic,” as it led to the defeat of Russians and their communist government in Afghanistan.
“The Third of Hoot was the uprising day of Kabul people who stood against a foreign transgression by chanting Allahuakbar. They showed that Afghan people want freedom, independence and Islam and imposed ideas are not acceptable,” said Zabiullah Mujahid, the spokesperson of the Islamic Emirate.
In 1980, former Soviet Union forces attacked Afghanistan by air and land.
Two months later, on the third of Hoot, Kabul people started an uprising that spread to the entire country.
Some Afghans who witnessed the former Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan have traumatic stories of the brutality and terror of the Red Army.
They said that soldiers of the former Soviet Union massacred citizens, including women and children.
Former jihadist commander Ahmad Ali Ghordarwazi fought former Soviet forces.
After years of fighting in Herat against the former Soviet forces, he became commander of a large army of soldiers.
“Consider the Ukraine-related videos; Afghanistan was the same way. They used their artillery, bombers, and missiles. For a week, they bombed a little village day and night,” Ghordarwazi said.
“Our friends were martyred in hundreds of places, our friends have been martyred. In the Khandaq region of Paktia’s Zurmat, Russian forces came there and martyred many people,” said Mohammad Karim, a resident of Paktia.
Abdul Salam Sadat, a resident of Nimruz province, said that Soviet soldiers killed 25 of his family members and his relatives.
“They were bombarding the village, if people were coming out of their houses, they were beating them,” he said.
In 1989, exactly thirty-four years on Wednesday, the former Soviet Union announced its complete withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, ending a nine-year war that claimed the lives of millions of Afghans.—Tolonews
