The Soviet Afgan War

iam currently working out ot a series of paintings, these large scales, paintings that are tax face o. i want the audience to be agan and kind of have to confront myths of our history and myths of who we are. What term would you use instead of the soviet afghan war, or whatever, was actually fighting me? I don't know how to put it simply, because i haven't been thinking about that. Because it wasn't soviets against afghans, whor get into it. And pocason and israel ind house of sath. There was random moslems from other countries fighting chichnians. It was, so much