Martin Antonenko
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The Last Soviet Troops Leave Afghanistan
On February 15, 1989, the last Soviet troops leave Afghanistan.
One of the very last members of the Red Army to leave the country across the bridge over the border river Amu Darya near Termez (today: Uzbekistan) is the supreme commander of the 40th Army, Lieutenant General Boris Gromow himself...
...who replaced the previous commander, Marshal Valentin Warennikov, in February 1987...:
Gromow crosses the bridge on foot – only the BTR armored personnel carrier with the troop flag of the 40th Army is behind him.
In the middle of the bridge that marks the border with the Soviet Union, the general is greeted by his son Maksim.
Conscript Igor Ljakhimovwitsch from Field Guard No. 40, nicknamed "Pioneer" (because he had previously served in a sapper unit)...
... on the other hand, will only come home as "special freight 200". That's the Army code for a zinc coffin with a "021-er," a dead man, inside.
Ljakhimowitsch was shot in the neck while sitting on his BMD infantry fighting vehicle during the retreat that last day. He is the last Soviet soldier to fall in Afghanistan...:
He is one of 15,000 dead, almost 45,000 wounded and maimed, and 416,000 traumatized (and mostly drug addicts) who fell victim to the "fraternal internationalist aid" with which the USSR tried to keep the "socialist" regime in power.
Afghan casualties number in the hundreds of thousands - they were never counted...
The Russian war in Afghanistan is history - there has not been a single day of peace in Afghanistan since then until today...
On February 15, 1989, the last Soviet troops leave Afghanistan.
One of the very last members of the Red Army to leave the country across the bridge over the border river Amu Darya near Termez (today: Uzbekistan) is the supreme commander of the 40th Army, Lieutenant General Boris Gromow himself...
...who replaced the previous commander, Marshal Valentin Warennikov, in February 1987...:
Gromow crosses the bridge on foot – only the BTR armored personnel carrier with the troop flag of the 40th Army is behind him.
In the middle of the bridge that marks the border with the Soviet Union, the general is greeted by his son Maksim.
Conscript Igor Ljakhimovwitsch from Field Guard No. 40, nicknamed "Pioneer" (because he had previously served in a sapper unit)...
... on the other hand, will only come home as "special freight 200". That's the Army code for a zinc coffin with a "021-er," a dead man, inside.
Ljakhimowitsch was shot in the neck while sitting on his BMD infantry fighting vehicle during the retreat that last day. He is the last Soviet soldier to fall in Afghanistan...:
He is one of 15,000 dead, almost 45,000 wounded and maimed, and 416,000 traumatized (and mostly drug addicts) who fell victim to the "fraternal internationalist aid" with which the USSR tried to keep the "socialist" regime in power.
Afghan casualties number in the hundreds of thousands - they were never counted...
The Russian war in Afghanistan is history - there has not been a single day of peace in Afghanistan since then until today...
