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 ...
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Russia’s Vietnam: The Soviet War in Afghanistan
From 1979 to 1989, the Soviet Union fought a brutal and costly war in Afghanistan, seeking to prop up a communist government against insurgent groups known as the Mujahideen. Despite massive firepower ...
The Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) was a grueling counterinsurgency conflict that tested the limits of—and ultimately broke—Soviet military might. Amid the rugged Hindu Kush mountains, where ground ...
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