Hundreds of thousands died of disease. Roughly 2% of the population, an estimated 620,000 men, lost their lives in the line of duty. Taken as a percentage of today's population, the toll would have risen as high as 6 million souls. The human cost of the Civil War was beyond anybody's expectations.
In the year 1979, the soldiers of Afghanistan who fought in the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan were called Mujahideen.
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In the 1980s, the Soviet-Afghan war happened over a time span of 9 years where the Afghan soldiers and the Marxist groups conflicted against the Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet Army.
Mujahideen was a collective group of soldiers from Afghanistan country who confronted the Soviet Union in the war between the Soviets and Afghanistan.
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It ended about 1.8 million years ago
