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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Modern Russia thinks of Leonid Brezhnev better than Soviet

2022-11-11

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Maxim Sokolov

[RIA] Exactly 40 years ago, on November 10, 1982, a festive concert in honor of the Day of the Soviet Militia, which had been standing there for a long time, fell out of the television broadcast grid. Instead, classical music played on TV. This led to unequivocal thoughts - and they were justified. The next day, November 11, the death of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR L. I. Brezhnev was officially announced.

Posted by:badanov

#4 I think the modern phrase used to describe this and related phenomenon is “if only the czar knew”…

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2022-11-11 13:23

#3 #2 Russians to this claim the politburo and the Central Committee both opposed the intervention.

..Entirely possible...and utterly irrelevant.

Mike

Posted by: MikeKozlowski 2022-11-11 10:14

#2 Russians to this claim the politburo and the Central Committee both opposed the intervention.

From the article:

--- at every moment of the Soviet presence, Afghanistan remained a de facto and legally independent state, the responsibility for the success of the defeat of which fell entirely on the shoulders of its government. However, despite them, now many former opponents of the PDPA regime admit that they were able to change the situation in the country only for the worse. For example, the publicist Kasim Akhgar, who previously fought in the Mujahideen detachments, now speaks positively about the times of the Soviet presence: “I, as a person who took part in the anti-Soviet resistance, admit that in those days the people lived better” 19) .
N. A. Mendkovich

Posted by: badanov 2022-11-11 08:15

#1 How do the Russian people think about Brezhnev's Afghanistan invasion at this point? Any re-evaluation in light of America's own adventure in the area?

Posted by: ruprecht 2022-11-11 08:05

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