Soviet prisoners war Afghanistan

[Duncanpup]

I found this (captivity and conversion a in-depth study of Soviet prisoners war in Afghanistan by Elliott Newton. At scholar works online

Really points out the problems the sov army from using central Asian troops in beginning in 79 the Uzbeks Tajiks from Muslim territory under kremlin control. And as well the desperation of Soviet soldiers on the ground , as old infantry soldier I found this interesting.

[rickyhall]

1. Seems weird. They were so devastating against the Nazis.

[Duncanpup]

2. Agreed

With our lend lease in WW2 ,so I think they well they were training to fight nato. Not a insurgency even Alexander the Great could not defeat the hillbilly Afghanistan as the British and then us.

[abqtommy]

3. Today's Russkies are now Nazis/Fascists themselves. What goes around comes around.

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[Duncanpup]

6. I agree

[marble falls]

10. Even as Commies, they were fascist.

[marble falls]

4. The mudjahin kicked the Bear's ass on the way out. It went on full bore right to the border ...

... 1988, and then the Bear went to a worse place, Chechnya.

[Duncanpup]

5. Chechnya the sov's

Been trying since 1785 you would have thought they’d figured that out, As In do not open it’s a can of bloodshed.

[marble falls]

7. And how! I saw video's the Chechens put out, they slaughtered their captives ...

There's a bunch of nations that love the Middle Ages, and we should leave them alone, not selling or giving them weapons. Afghanistan and Chechnya are two of them.

[Duncanpup]

8. I can't remember if it was the first or second Chechen

90’s or early 2000, anyway the Chechen commander would only allow three man teams infiltrate into Grozny. Two dudes perhaps lite machine guns or Ak’s and one man carrying anti tank perhaps rpg. Anyway they had the Grozny city planner on command staff, and these Chechen hunter killer teams could use sewers pop up hit and disappear. City planner knew the sewers.

The Chechen commander kept the main body of his troops out city pretty smart as if in Grozny they would have been surrounded destroyed by Russians.

I work with a friend immigrated to America he was sov VDV Afghanistan, fellow infantry paratrooper. Yet his two brothers ended up tours Chechnya, fortunately they survived they remained in Tula he came states and is co worker.

[marble falls]

9. All I can say is the Chechens scare me. And the Afghanis are not to be taken lightly, either ...

Massacre of British Army in Afghanistan in 1842
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A British incursion into Afghanistan ended in disaster in 1842 when an entire British army, while retreating back to India, was massacred. Only a single survivor made it back to British-held territory. It was assumed the Afghans let him live to tell the story of what had happened.




When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains,
and the women come out to cut up what remains,
jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
and go to your gawd like a soldier.

Rudyard Kipling

[Duncanpup]

11. Exactly