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Zinky Boys

Soviet Voices From the Afghanistan War
Jun 05, 2017uncommonreader rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
This oral history contains the accounts of those men and women who were sent to Afghanistan and of family members whose children did not return. It paints a picture of horror and brutality. I was struck by the number of landmines and the many who lost all of their limbs as a result. However, the book provides no context of the war as a proxy war against the US funded Afghan mujahedeen, nor of the Russian failed efforts at building infrastructure and providing education for Afghan children.