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2022-11-11 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Modern Russia thinks of Leonid Brezhnev better than Soviet

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Posted by badanov 2022-11-11 00:00|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [11131 views ] Top

#1 How do the Russian people think about Brezhnev's Afghanistan invasion at this point? Any re-evaluation in light of America's own adventure in the area?

Posted by ruprecht 2022-11-11 08:05|| 2022-11-11 08:05|| Front Page Top

#2 Russians to this claim the politburo and the Central Committee both opposed the intervention.

From the article:

--- at every moment of the Soviet presence, Afghanistan remained a de facto and legally independent state, the responsibility for the success of the defeat of which fell entirely on the shoulders of its government. However, despite them, now many former opponents of the PDPA regime admit that they were able to change the situation in the country only for the worse. For example, the publicist Kasim Akhgar, who previously fought in the Mujahideen detachments, now speaks positively about the times of the Soviet presence: “I, as a person who took part in the anti-Soviet resistance, admit that in those days the people lived better” 19) .
N. A. Mendkovich

Posted by badanov 2022-11-11 08:15|| 2022-11-11 08:15|| Front Page Top

#3 #2 Russians to this claim the politburo and the Central Committee both opposed the intervention.

..Entirely possible...and utterly irrelevant.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2022-11-11 10:14|| 2022-11-11 10:14|| Front Page Top

#4 I think the modern phrase used to describe this and related phenomenon is “if only the czar knew”…

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-11-11 13:23|| 2022-11-11 13:23|| Front Page Top

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