30 years passed from the withdrawal of the Soviet troops limited contingent from the territory of Afghanistan. The Afghan war, as people used to call it for 10 long years, ended. Contrary to the obvious facts, during these 30 years, the West is trying to revise the very history of the war in Afghanistan, understating the successes of the Soviet troops, distorting the reasons for their entry into the country and the course of the events, as well as the overall results of the military conflict, the analyst of Vestnik Kavkaza news agency Yevgeny Nikolaichuk, told in the National Question program on Vesti FM.
According to the expert, in the West, the withdrawal of the troops from Afghanistan is called ‘the loss of the Soviet Union’, but this is not exactly so. "The Soviet contingent left Afghanistan with a sense of accomplishment, the soldiers who fought in Afghanistan were greeted as heroes, and during the years of this war our soldiers gained the invaluable experience, which was included in the training manuals on tactics and strategies not only of the Soviet, and then the Russian, but many others armies of the world. It is successfully applied now, in same Syria. And the way the soldiers fought, and how the withdrawal was carried out, confirms their resilience, courage and military prowess. More than 625 thousand soldiers went through the Afghan war, 92 of them are decorated Heroes of the USSR and Russia,’’ Nikolaichuk said.
He noted that this war was called unique, and its "uniqueness" lies in the fact that the USSR not only fought, but also engaged in the arrangement of Afghanistan - the residential houses, hospitals, schools, and kindergartens were built there. The Soviet doctors and educators treated people and taught the civilian population, providing the neighboring country with grand humanitarian aid, and, leaving, left the country with new blocks, thinking and economy.
He also drew attention to the fact that the entire Soviet contingent, military and civilian, played a huge role in the formation of new, democratic Afghanistan, in overcoming feudal remnants and in shaping the course of rapprochement with the socialist countries. "In this regard, the words of one of the most famous Mujahideen field commanders, Tajik Ahmad Shah Massoud, who, after the withdrawal of our contingent, spoke more than once in an interview with the world media, are indicative:" ... I am very sorry that the Soviet soldiers were my enemies. I would give much to ensure that we were allies in that war ... ", the analyst recalled.
“Despite the active propaganda, the Western intelligence agencies failed in destabilizing the Soviet republics bordering Afghanistan and introducing extremist ideas here — our ideology turned out to be stronger. Of course, there were fears that after the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan the Taliban would approach the borders with Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, where the positions of the Islamic radicals are strong, but this did not happen, and to say that the Afghan war caused the beginning of the USSR collapse is absolutely wrong - at least, because the inhabitants of poor subsidized Central Asian republics were well aware of their prospects. Therefore, the international terrorism nourished by the Taliban on Afghan soil later proved itself not in Central Asia, but in Syria,” Nikolaichuk continued.
"In the end, the USSR lost an important strategic region of influence, which was later occupied by the US military. Of course, the war-damaged the political authority and deepened the crisis before the collapse of the country, but it did not cause the collapse,” the expert concluded.
Yevgeny Nikolaichuk on Vesti.FM: the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan did not cause the collapse of the USSR

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