1989 – Soviet–Afghan War: The last Soviet armoured column leaves Kabul.

Who remembers that the Soviet Union had a wasted war with Afghanistan before we did?

Soviet–Afghan War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan_War

The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years, from December 1979 to February 1989. Insurgent groups known collectively as the mujahideen, as well as smaller Maoist groups, fought a guerrilla war against the Soviet Army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan government, mostly in the rural countryside. The mujahideen groups were backed primarily by the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan, making it a Cold War proxy war. Between 562,000^[32] and 2,000,000 civilians were killed and millions of Afghans fled the country as refugees,^{[33][34][36][37]} mostly to Pakistan and Iran.