Secret mission in Peshawar: how the OUN liberated Ukrainian prisoners in Afghanistan and forged an anti-imperial front
In the corner of the room, in an armchair, amidst the disturbing atmosphere of Peshawar, sits a man in traditional Afghan attire. A long black beard, a penetrating gaze. In […]
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How Afghan Mujahideen Conducted Analytics on the USSR [1982]
Recently, an interesting material in Farsi was found in the OUN Archive. This is a bulletin of the Islamic Union of Mujahideen of Afghanistan, which analyzed the situation in the USSR after Yu. Andropov came to power. There were 9 years left before the collapse of the Soviet empire.
The Insider: GRU paid Afghan Taliban to attack US soldiers
Russian intelligence maintained close ties with the Taliban movement in Afghanistan and financed attacks against American troops in the 2010s, according to an investigation by journalists from The Insider and […]
War in Afghanistan. Why did the USSR lose?
On February 15, 1989, the USSR completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan. The war, which was planned as quick and victorious, turned into a nightmare that lasted nine years and two […]
35 years after the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan: is Russian society capable of drawing obvious conclusions
15 February in Ukraine is the Day of commemoration of the participants of hostilities on the territory of other states. This is one of the few memorable dates that remain common to us with Russia and Belarus.
How do wars start?
Here is a sheet with the signatures of the Kremlin elders from the Brezhnev Politburo, because of it the USSR got into a 10-year war in Afghanistan. Today we know by whose hand this secret “document” was compiled under the bureaucratic number P 176/125 and the title “On the situation in A. ” Konstantin Chernenko put his hand in.