Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
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.
Soviet Union Two steps to silence: Два шага до тишины: Yuri Tupitsky: Drama, War. 1991 Soviet Union Gorge of Spirits: Ущелье духов: Sergey Nilov Action. 1991 Soviet Union Caravan of Death: Караван смерти: Ivan Solovov: Action. 1991 Soviet Union Afghan: Афганец: Vladimir Mazur: Action. 1991 Russia ...
S. 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.
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.
Russian–Chechen relations (1996–1999) Political tensions were fueled in part by allegedly Chechen or pro-Chechen terrorist and criminal activity in Russia, as well as by border clashes. On 16 November 1996, in Kaspiysk (Dagestan), a bomb destroyed an apartment building housing Russian border guards, killing 68 people.
11,000 Soviet and 2,600 Afghan soldiers, under Marshal of the Soviet Union Sergei Sokolov, participated in the offensive, supported by 200 airplanes and 190 helicopters. On April 22, after a two-day bombardment of the region by Tu-16, Tu-22M and Su-24 bombers, [ 24 ] they advanced rapidly into the Panjshir.
The U.S. offered two packages of economic assistance and military sales to support Pakistan's role in the war against the Soviet troops in Afghanistan. The first six-year assistance package (1981–1987) amounted to US$3.2 billion, equally divided between economic assistance and military sales.