The Soviet-Afghan War has been a point of contention through the modern era. Many people have called it the Soviet’s Vietnam in reference to the long draw out fight that drained soviet resolve in the conflict. This paper will discuss the course and ultimate failure by the soviets to win the war and how that … Continue reading Graveyard of Empires
Tag: Veterans
Red Star, Week 7 Posts
The Entitlement Warriors
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The Soviet veterans of the Great Patriotic War, though united through the fight for entitlements, differed greatly in generational experience and social welfare. The frontline generation, born between 1923 and 1927, “had not been established in adult life before the war and by 1945 had not learned much more than ‘shoot, throw grenades, and creep around’… Continue reading The Entitlement Warriors →
Comrades' Corner, Week 7 Posts
The Soviet “VA” and the Veterans of WW2
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The Great Patriotic War took an unbelievable toll on Russia and its people. German atrocities were widespread: villages were burned to the ground, women raped. men enslaved, and children killed. Most of the people of the Ukraine and other parts of Western Europe lots all they had to the enemy. The people of cities like […]
Red Star, Week 7 Posts
Hero’s “Welcome”
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Typically when soldiers return to their home country after a destructive war, they are met with cheers and excitement. Unfortunately, after World War II, the Soviet soldiers returned to a country that had been demolished and a population that had lost millions. The war had destroyed “1,700 towns, 70,000 villages, 30,000 factories, and 65,000 kilometers […]
