Foreign ministers from 34 Islamic nations adopted a resolution which condemned the Soviet intervention and demanded " the immediate , urgent and unconditional withdrawal of Soviet troops " from the Muslim nation of Afghanistan . The UN General Assembly passed a resolution protesting the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan by a vote of 104 – 18 . According to political scientist Gilles Kepel , the Soviet intervention or " invasion " was " viewed with horror " in the West , considered to be a " fresh twist " on the geo-political " Great Game " of the 19th Century in which Britain feared that Russia sought access to the Indian Ocean and posed " a threat to Western security " , explicitly violating " the world balance of power agreed upon at Yalta " in 1945
Yalta
Yalta Conference
Soviet–Afghan War