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The 9th Company (Russian: 9 рота, romanized: 9 rota) is a 2005 Russian war film directed by Fedor Bondarchuk and set during the Soviet–Afghan War.The film is loosely based on a real-life battle that took place at Hill 3234 in early 1988, during Operation Magistral, the last large-scale Soviet military operation in Afghanistan.
Soviet Union Caravan of Death: Караван смерти: Ivan Solovov: Action. 1991 Soviet Union Afghan: Афганец: Vladimir Mazur: Action. 1991 Russia Italy Afghan Breakdown: Афганский излом: Vladimir Bortko: War. 1991 Russia Leg: Нога: Nikita Tyagunov: Action, Drama, War. Based on a novel The Leg. 1992 Ukraine ...
The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between Soviet Union, the DRA and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters.
List of Soviet–Afghan War films. Categories: Films set in the 1970s. Films set in the 1980s. Films by war. Cold War films. Films set in Afghanistan. Films about jihadism. Soviet–Afghan War fiction.
Up to 52,000 wounded ( Time) [ 20] The First Chechen War, also referred to as the First Russo-Chechen War, was a struggle for independence waged by the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria against the Russian Federation from 11 December 1994 to 31 August 1996.
The Beast is a movie released in 1988 about the crew of a Soviet T-55 tank and their attempts to escape a hostile region, set during the invasion of Afghanistan in 1981. Afghan Breakdown ( Afganskiy Izlom ), the first in-depth movie about the war, produced jointly by Italy and the Soviet Union, in full cooperation with the Red Army , in 1991.
The Soviet Unionwas the first country to establish diplomatic relations with Afghanistan following the Third Anglo-Afghan Warin 1919.[2] On 28 February 1921, Afghanistan and the Soviet Russia signed a Friendship Treaty.[3] The Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan against the Basmachi movementin 1929and 1930.
Set between 1988 and 1989 in the closing stages of the Soviet-Afghan War, the plot, based upon a true story, centres around the men of the 108th Motor Rifle Division, whose withdrawal from Afghanistan is put on hold to rescue the kidnapped son of a Soviet general by the Mujahideen as a result of a plane crash, fighting their way through the Salang Pass and experiencing the hardship of war ...