Reddit reviews Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89

Die DDR war, wenn es um Ausbildungsmissionen ging, deutlich aktiver als die BRD. Hier findet man eine kurze Einleitung dazu. Zum Thema UdSSR in Afghanistan allgemein empfiehlt sich das Buch Afgantsy.

Warum die NVA ungern von den Soviets in Kriegs- oder Krisengebieten genutzt wurde war halt recht simpel: Deutsche Soldaten in der Offensive wären sehr schlechte Presse gewesen.

> German trained officers were largely replaced

Den Satz brauch ich im Zusammenhang, so liest es sich für mich als seien die von Deutschen ausgebildeten Offiziere ersetzt worden. Angabe des Grundes fehlt.

Thanks!

>There's so much of this that it seems doomed to be forgotten, tragically, all these stories and so on

It is true - Afghan's war, its veterans - "афганцы", "афганки" - had drifted away from public consciousness in Russia quite a while ago.

That's normal. There are still some who keep memory going and memoirs coming - мы помним. As passions subsided now and a lot of archives are accessible (not all, of course), more and more serious books will be published, including in English - see Rodric Braithwate - Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89.

One subtle cultural thing: in Russia, veterans of local wars are often named after a place they fought in, thus 100% identifying themselves with local populace - e.g. "afgantsy", "chechentsy" or taking local name - e.g. "shuravi" ("soviets" in Dari).

Koran Kalashnikov and Laptop: The Neo-Taliban Insurgency in Afghanistan 2002-2007 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0199326355/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_Pw6rzbGW39TW2

War, Politics and Society in Afghanistan, 1978-1992 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0878407588/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_lx6rzb509WDTW

Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89 https://www.amazon.com/dp/019983265X/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_dz6rzbDMP6KG2

No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War through Afghan Eyes https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GVRVAXM/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_VB6rzbJ0EBR87

The Afghan Campaign: A Novel https://www.amazon.com/dp/0767922387/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_WC6rzbEDZ3B3Z

Afghanistan: A Cultural and Political History (Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0691154414/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_jD6rzb6MQ4J2N

The newest books on the Soviets and Afghanistan are the following:

http://www.amazon.com/Afgantsy-Afghanistan-1979-1989-Rodric-Braithwaite/dp/019983265X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1323233585&sr=8-1

http://www.amazon.com/Long-Goodbye-Soviet-Withdrawal-Afghanistan/dp/0674058666/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1323233585&sr=8-4

https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/document/cia-rdp81b00401r000600120003-3

https://sofrep.com/news/russias-ever-elusive-warm-water-quest/

Here's a book you can read, I dont know if it has pictures:
https://www.amazon.com/Afgantsy-Russians-Afghanistan-Rodric-Braithwaite/dp/019983265X