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Randi 2022-03-23 08:01:03
3234 9th Company of Highland Battle Heroes
From January 7th to 8th, 1988, Company 9, 3rd Battalion, 345th Independent Airborne Regiment, 40th Army of the Soviet Army guarded Hill 3234, which controlled the Gardez-Khorst Highway, for several days and nights. It repelled the multiple attacks of more than 300 anti-government armed "black...
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Kianna 2022-03-27 09:01:22
For the remembrance of forgetting
Many people remember the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan 15 years ago, but forget the Afghan war launched by the Soviet Union more than 30 years ago. In 1988, they came to Afghanistan with the absurd ideal of "helping the Afghan people resist imperialist aggression". When they shed their blood on the...
Mikhail Solodko
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Lyutyy: We were leaving Afghanistan. We, the 9th company, we won our war. Back then we didn't know many things. We didn't know that, two years later, the country we had fought for would vanish. That wearing medals of a nonexistent country would become unfashionable.
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Lyutyy: We were leaving Afghanistan, the 9th Company. We... we won.
