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Soviet-Era Journalist, Face Of Afghan War, Looks Back On Pullout

When the Soviet Union withdrew its forces from Afghanistan 25 years ago after a bloody and protracted war, Mikhail Leshchinsky was one of the last people out. Leshchinsky wasn't a soldier. A reporter ...
The National Interest

The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan Should Guide Our Approach to Russia

Since Russia began its full-fledged invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the United States and its allies have provided historic levels of assistance to Kyiv, implemented the most extensive network of ...
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The Soviet Union’s War in Afghanistan

From 1979 to 1989, the Soviet Union fought a grueling conflict in Afghanistan that became known as the “Soviet Vietnam.” Soviet forces struggled against Afghan guerrilla fighters, the Mujahideen, who ...
Time

Hidden in Afghanistan: Soviet Veterans of a Previous War Compare and Tremble

Old Soviet armored personnel carriers, tanks and artillery litter the countryside and cities of Afghanistan. Villagers in Khwaja Zaid in northern Afghanistan use two APCs along placed along the ...
openDemocracy

Leaving Afghanistan

Twenty five years ago today, Soviet General Boris Gromov left Afghanistan with the last Soviet soldiers still in that country. Halfway across the ‘Friendship Bridge’ linking Termez in Soviet ...
NPR

Effects of Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan Loom Large

Twenty-five years ago Friday, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to preserve communism along the Soviet borders. President Jimmy Carter sent U.S. troops to help the Afghans win over the Soviets, ...
Reuters

Taliban says the U.S. to repeat Soviet defeat in Afghanistan

KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban used the 23rd anniversary of the humiliating Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan on Wednesday to taunt the United States that it would suffer the same fate as preparations ...
The New Yorker

A Girl’s Forced Marriage in Post-Invasion Afghanistan, in “Hills and Mountains”

Salar Pashtoonyar’s documentary short begins by discussing how the Soviet invasion of 1979 fundamentally altered life in Afghanistan. Over footage of people going about their day in a busy mountainous ...
Reuters

Thirty years on, some Russians want to reframe Soviet war in Afghanistan

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Thirty years after the Soviet Union left Afghanistan, some Russian politicians are calling for a reassessment of the conflict which critics have long cast as a bloody foreign ...
Henry Stewart History on MSN

Gorbachev’s reforms opened the door to Soviet collapse

The Soviet Union’s sudden collapse shocked the world because few expected one of the most powerful empires on Earth to ...
War on the Rocks

The United States and Afghanistan Before the Soviet Invasion

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Aaron O’Connell, associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin and director of research for the Clements Center for National Security, ...