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How the Su-25 Frogfoot Gunship Changed the Soviet Experience in Afghanistan

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 ...
Rferl.org

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 ...
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 ...
The National Interest

“Satan’s Chariot”: How The Russian Mi-24 Hind Helicopter Terrorized Afghanistan

The Soviet Mi-24 was a testament to the Soviet preference for brute force and power over finesse or whiz-bang technological wizardry. These flying beasts were killers. At the height of the Cold War, ...
LAist

Many Russians Today Take Pride In Afghan War That Foretold Soviet Demise

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Why Did the Soviet Union Send Its Worst Tanks to Afghanistan?

The fact that the Soviets were using large numbers of their older tanks did not inherently mean that they were likely to lose. Picture the scene. A group of Western military analysts are snickering at ...
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Soviet Veterans, Who Spent Time In Afghanistan, Comment On The U.S. Exit Strategy

Veterans of the Soviet Union's unsuccessful intervention in Afghanistan give their views about the U.S. experience there. The Soviets left... Soviet Veterans, Who Spent Time In Afghanistan, Comment On ...
Time

Obama’s Afghanistan Speech: Admitting the Limits of American Power

In November of 1986, Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev addressed the Politburo about his country’s futile war in Afghanistan. The conflict had already dragged on for six years, Gorbachev told his ...
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 ...
Time

Soviet Soldier Found After 33 Years MIA: Missing In Afghanistan

A former Soviet soldier has been discovered hiding in Afghanistan under an assumed identity 33 years after going missing. Bakhretdin Khakimov disappeared during the first months of the nine-year war ...
Flightglobal

Taliban flies US and Soviet helicopters in Afghanistan military parade

Three years after overrunning Afghanistan, Taliban militants who now control the impoverished Central Asian country are showing off their military hardware, including a number of apparently ...