Veterans - Soviets in Afghanistan - March 31 - Pt 1

As part of its series on veterans from some of the world's most brutal and forgotten conflicts Al Jazeera travelled to Russia.

Despite being the Soviet Union's largest military operation since the second world war, the decade-long war in Afghanistan is regarded by many as a humiliation and the Soviet 'Vietnam'.

However many veterans are still physically and psychologically damaged by their time in Afghanistan and say they do not receive adequate support upon their return.

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[YUSKHAN]

Afghan Mujadeen had respect for the soviet soldiers because they were braver and fought 10 times harder then the fucken murdering coward who there fighting today, the soviet were true warriors

[crist2000a]

Gorby is the bitch number one. Reagan - the bitch number two.

[blackei123]

@ 1:01 why do the russians have a M-60

[EllyMcCormack]

@AliceNchainz011 Yeah I'm not really sure what that was about. I can only guess that Saudi Arabia and Pakistan successfully lobbied America and Europe to intervene at the last minute, like they tried in 2001.

[publicmario17]

@AliceNchainz011 No, Bin Laden hated us beause of our prescence in Saudi Arabia during the 1991 Gulf War. He told us to leave Saudi Arabia many times or face war. When we didn't leave, Bin Laden then declared war on us because we refuse to pull out our troops Saudi Arabia. That's the number one reason why Bin Laden attacked us. They are other reasons Bin Laden had too but our troops in Saudi Arabia was the number one reason for attacking us.

[AliceNchainz011]

@publicmario17 (cont'd) What does Saddam Hussein have to do with 9/11?

[AliceNchainz011]

@EllyMcCormack You know...I'm kinda surprised the U.S. didn't encourage (at least secretly) a war between Iran and Afghanistan, like how they handled Iraq and Iran during the 80s. It would've further divided and weakened two anti-american forces in the region

[AliceNchainz011]

@publicmario17 Yes...the Taliban are Sunni and they murdered shiites and Iranian diplomats, which brought them to the brink of war during the late 90s. Iran was also one of the backers of the Northern Alliance, along with Russia and India.

[publicmario17]

@EllyMcCormack Iraq also fired on U.S. aircraft patrolling no-fly zones and in 1993 Saddam Hussein's government even tried to kill ex-President George Bush Sr. while on a visit to Kuwait (which it failed). Does this things tell you that that Iraq was IN FACT a threat to the U.S.? Even Saddam deployed the Iraqi Republican Guard to the Kuwaiti border in 1994 but backed off after U.S. troops were also moved to the Kuwait border to defense Kuwait from the IRG.(look up Operation Vigilant Warrior)

[publicmario17]

@EllyMcCormack Agreed, in 1991, as part of a Gulf War ceasefire, Saddam agreed to a ceasefire agreement, UNSCR 687, that he was required to eliminate its WMDs program and allow inspectors from the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) to monitor the country’s adherence to the ceasefire agreement. Saddam kept on booting out UN inspectors which means he violated a ceasefire allowing other opposed parties(the U.S. and it's allies) to resume the wart under UNSCR 687 and 678.