Martin Antonenko
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The last Soviet soldiers leave Afghanistan!
On February 15, 1989 the last Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan.
One of the very last Soviets to leave the country over the bridge over the border river Amu Darya near Termez (today: Uzbekistan) is the commander-in-chief of the 40th Army, Lieutenant General Boris Wsewolodiwitsch Gromov himself ...
... who had replaced the previous commander, Marshal Walentin Iwanowitsch Warennikov, in February 1987.
Gromow lets his command vehicle, a BTR 60 armored personnel carrier, stop at the entrance to the bridge, dismounts and crosses the bridge on foot - behind him only the BTR armored personnel carrier with the flag of the 40th Army.
In the middle of the bridge that marks the border with the Soviet Union, the general is greeted by his son Maksim.
The conscript Igor Ljachimowitsch from field guard No. 40, nicknamed "Pioneer" (because he had previously served in a pioneer unit) ...
... on the other hand, will only come home as "special freight 200". This is the army code for a zinc coffin with an "021-er", a fallen man, in it.
Lyachimowitsch was shot in the neck on February 15, 1989 while he was in retreat sitting on his BTR armored personnel carrier. He is the last Soviet soldier to fall in Afghanistan.
He is one of 15,000 fallen, almost 45,000 wounded and mutilated, and 416,000 traumatized (and mostly drug addicts).
The soldiers receive Soviet and Afghan awards for "brotherly internationalist aid"...
... but that does not give them back anything that they left behind and lost in Afghanistan ...
The already meager disability pensions that war invalids receive from the state (and which they first have to apply bureaucratically and "prove" their invalidity!) will be worth nothing but dirt a short time later after the collapse of the Soviet Union ...
Nobody exactly counted the victims on the Afghan side.They are estimated at up to 250,000 combatants and 2,000,000 civilians killed, plus 3 million civilians wounded in acts of war, 5 million refugees outside Afghanistan and 2 million internally displaced persons.
The Russian war in Afghanistan is history - since then there has not been a single day of peace there ...
On February 15, 1989 the last Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan.
One of the very last Soviets to leave the country over the bridge over the border river Amu Darya near Termez (today: Uzbekistan) is the commander-in-chief of the 40th Army, Lieutenant General Boris Wsewolodiwitsch Gromov himself ...
... who had replaced the previous commander, Marshal Walentin Iwanowitsch Warennikov, in February 1987.
Gromow lets his command vehicle, a BTR 60 armored personnel carrier, stop at the entrance to the bridge, dismounts and crosses the bridge on foot - behind him only the BTR armored personnel carrier with the flag of the 40th Army.
In the middle of the bridge that marks the border with the Soviet Union, the general is greeted by his son Maksim.
The conscript Igor Ljachimowitsch from field guard No. 40, nicknamed "Pioneer" (because he had previously served in a pioneer unit) ...
... on the other hand, will only come home as "special freight 200". This is the army code for a zinc coffin with an "021-er", a fallen man, in it.
Lyachimowitsch was shot in the neck on February 15, 1989 while he was in retreat sitting on his BTR armored personnel carrier. He is the last Soviet soldier to fall in Afghanistan.
He is one of 15,000 fallen, almost 45,000 wounded and mutilated, and 416,000 traumatized (and mostly drug addicts).
The soldiers receive Soviet and Afghan awards for "brotherly internationalist aid"...
... but that does not give them back anything that they left behind and lost in Afghanistan ...
The already meager disability pensions that war invalids receive from the state (and which they first have to apply bureaucratically and "prove" their invalidity!) will be worth nothing but dirt a short time later after the collapse of the Soviet Union ...
Nobody exactly counted the victims on the Afghan side.They are estimated at up to 250,000 combatants and 2,000,000 civilians killed, plus 3 million civilians wounded in acts of war, 5 million refugees outside Afghanistan and 2 million internally displaced persons.
The Russian war in Afghanistan is history - since then there has not been a single day of peace there ...
