Afgánský syndrom - Oleg Sarin, Lev Dvoretsky

Mystery shrouds the origins of Taleban. One of the mysterious legends says this: In July 1994, when Hekmatyar's troops still controlled Kandahar in South Afghanistan, a group of soldiers kidnapped and raped three young women from a respected family. This reportedly so angered their relatives, students at a local Islamic school, that they and their classmates punished the kidnappers with death and killed the commander of their unit. When other boys saw that someone dared to stand up against the terrorist gangs, they joined in droves. And because they were mostly students, "seekers of knowledge" (talebane ilm) in Afghan Persian, they took to calling themselves Taleban, and because they sought to stop the fighting and establish a just peace throughout the country on the basis of Islam, they referred to themselves as seekers of truth (talebane hakk), which of course can also mean seekers of God. According to another version, in 1994, a graduate of a theological school, then about thirty-two years old, Mollah Muhammad Umar (the present spiritual leader of the movement) could no longer watch his fellow citizens suffer and called on his former classmates and other friends to join him in declaring war on these evils. Reportedly, only seven students dared to do so. Together they stormed a military post and drove the soldiers to flight. According to another version, a convoy of Pakistani trucks heading from Quetta to Turkmenistan near Kandahar was ambushed and looted by Hekmatyar's bandits, and Pashtun students from Pakistan's border regions are said to have set out to avenge him and already stayed in Afghanistan. It is certain that there were many of them, that they were well trained and that they brought with them many tanks, heavy guns and helicopters. It is alleged that the US supported them for a time.
On July 7, 1979, Leonid Brezhnev stunned the Western world with his order to the Red Army to enter Afghanistan - then supposedly a staunch Soviet ally. For the next decade, the events that preceded the invasion and the actions of the Soviet Union and its soldiers were the subject of much conjecture and speculation. The full story of the Soviet "Vietnam" has not yet been told. The Afghan Syndrome, a book by two Soviet soldier-journalists, peers into secret state archives and presents the reader with the true history of the domestic plot in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, and illuminates the nature of the fragile relationship between the giant Soviet superpower and its tiny but strategically important neighbor. The book details military operations against the mujahideen, fearless and intransigent insurgents willing to do anything in the name of Allah and the homeland. The authors also recount the exploits of Soviet soldiers, totally ill-equipped to fight in this desolate and inhospitable land. We also learn of another analogy between the Afghan conflict and the Vietnam War; Soviet soldiers sent by the politicians of the old regime to risk their lives were not given the welcome they deserved on their return from Afghanistan. In fact, they were treated as social pariahs, as many American war veterans have experienced first-hand.
Oleg Sarin is a former major general in the Soviet army and former deputy editor of Krasnaya Zvezda, the daily newspaper of the Soviet armed forces. He joined the army in 1958 as a graduate of the Soviet Military Academy and Artillery School. He holds a doctorate in history. He has been a military journalist for more than thirty years and has written books on the famous Russian commander Alexander Suvorov and on front-line commanders during World War II.
Lev Dvoretsky is a retired colonel of the Soviet army. He became a soldier in 1948 and served actively until 1982. He graduated from the military aviation faculty and was awarded a doctorate in philosophy by Moscow University. As an author, he gained a reputation for his works on reconstruction and new thinking in the USSR. In the early 1990s he was responsible for the military-historical and military-economic publications of the joint Russian-American project Amscort International.


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Mnoho zajímavých informací, ale nečte se to tak dobře, jako třeba Suvorov.

Uvažoval jsem o koupi, ale zrovna se zajímám o jiné věci. Není to plné politiky a takových blbostí. Raději čtu knihy kde je popis nějaké akce, boje atd.

souhlasím se spoustou informací, je třeba jenom upřesnit že převaha sovětských pramenů je drtivá.

Zajímavá recenze knihy a hlavně děkuji za vysvětlení podstaty "hnutí".
Sovětská role a účast v Afgánu si zaslouží pozornost.

Je to dobra kniha. Je pravda, ze sa to trocha tazsie cita, ale da sa to zvladnut. Mna prekvapilo, ze na to , ze to pisu dvaja ruskí autori, tak ta kniha je vcelku objektivna, aj ked, ak chce clovek dokladne pochopit problematiku vojny v Afghanistane, tak mu nebude tato kniha stacit.....

Prumerna kniha.Neni spatna ale zase neni nicim vyjimecna.Nechapu proc byla v cetsine vydana prave tato kniha o Afganistanu

Staré a mudre slovo hovorí, že : To čo povieš späť nevrátiš.Pre posudenie objektivity je doležite poznať prostredie. Ruske prostredie po PERESTROJKE v tomto smere určite sa chce správať pred ostatnym svetom realne objektivne. Je to moj názor.