Unknown Soldier - from "The Black Tulip"

buy DVD at http://www.docfilm.com "The Black Tulip" is what the "Afgantsi" - the Soviet soldiers who fought in Afghanistan - call the plane that carried the bodies back to the Soviet Union. Opening at a Soviet army base in Kabul, the film visits an attack helicopter squadron, a firebase outside Kabul, and a guardpost near Kandahar. Then the film moves to the monument to the war dead of WWII beside the Kremlin wall, to a Moscow cemetery filled with dead from the Afghan war, and finally, to the heartbreak of a mother of one of the dead soldiers.

The film was shot in 1987, in collaboration with Novosti Press Agency. In 1988 the completed program aired on PBS and 15 other networks around the world, and was widely distributed in the underground video market in the USSR and East Europe, where it played a very small part in the collapse of the Soviet system...

While the Soviet intervention in the Afghan civil war is now history, The Black Tulip transcends the particular to become a moving meditation on the costs and sorrow of all wars.

TV: US (PBS), UK (Ch. 4), Japan (NHK), Spain (RTE), Australia, etc.

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[Andrè Hansen]

the countries didnt fight each other.

Afghan Soldiers was soviet allies. Democratic republic or Afghanistan asked for soviet help, so soviets came.

And eventhough soviets left early 1989, the DRA fought Bin Laden and rest of "taliban" untill 1992 when russia stopped selling oil to the country. What probably was the reason of the fall of DRA. (Democratic Republic of Afghanistan).

[sergai sakolov]

rest in peace comrads with love from kabul afghanistan

[Dieter Vrielynck]

A cusent of my alway's sing that song. Hy was really a great man en figth in chechnya for a will. Buth now hy's dead :( killd by Kapetalistisch basterts. Sow this song really means a loth to my. Thanks

From Dieter (loyal to the soviet empire)

[wootmajor]

he is the original artist. there are so many of soldier songs out there on utube.

[boristu154]

who is the original artist of this song its amazing?