[HIGHLIGHTS] May 15, 1988: Beginning of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan

On May 15, 1988, Soviet troops began withdrawing from Afghanistan. A historic event that even specialists did not really believe, after more than eight years of war.

To understand the reasons and consequences of this withdrawal for Moscow and Kabul, but also for the rest of the world, RFI receives historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse and Olivier Roy, specialist in Afghanistan and Iran.Originally broadcast on 17/05/1988. The first Russian tanks left Kabul on 15 May 1988, after the agreement of 14 April 1988.