14. Sappers searching for mines (RIA Novosti)
15. A Soviet supply column in the mountains (RIA Novosti)
16. Pandsher Valley, September 2008 (Author photograph)
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INDEX
40th Army 85, 122, 128, 133, 135, 143, 195, 198
A unique army 144
Aircraft losses 205
Corruption 189
Crime statistics 173, 227
Disbanded 308
Disciplinary measures 225
Drinking and drugs 190
Enters Afghanistan 84
Equipment 197
Formation
108th Motor-rifle Division 55, 87–8, 175–6, 227
12th Guards Motor-rifle Regiment 230, 252
15th Special Forces Brigade 133
180th Motor-rifle Regiment 127
201st Motor-rifle Division 87, 142, 175, 227, 291, 305
The division fights on 305
22nd Special Forces Brigade 133
345th Guards Independent Parachute Assault Regiment 82, 87, 91, 105, 182, 195, 214, 216, 290, 317, 325
9th Company 116, 215
Suppresses demonstration in Tblisi 1989 308
56th Guards Independent Airborne Assault Brigade 87–8, 172, 176, 214, 217–18
5th Guards Motor-rifle Division 55, 87, 174–5
66th Independent Motor-rifle Brigade 154, 156, 174, 227, 229
70th Independent Motor-rifle Brigade 227
860th Independent Motor-rifle Regiment 87, 157–8, 171, 173, 188, 199, 227–9, 242
Epic march of 176
Trashes base on departure 284
Operations of 209
Reunions of 325–6
Formidable fighters, despite criticism 144
Four main bases 175
Health problems resemble those in Crimean War 175
HQ in Amin’s old palace 142
Inadequacy of strategy 123
Invasion route 86
Large operations on Pakistan border and in Pandsher Valley 213, 215
Living conditions 169
Mobilisation 121
Muddled chain of command 85
Nature of fighting 197
Ordered to begin active operations 140
Politicians fail to welcome the soldiers back 293
Press gangs 137
Soviet troops remain in Afghanistan after 40th Army leaves 294
Success nullified by two basic misjudgements 124
Tactics 129, 132–3, 207
Use of elite forces 133
Abdullaev Yusuf, Soviet youth adviser 164–5
Abdur Rahman Khan (1840?—1901), Afghan ruler 13, 15, 26–8, 34, 44, 63
Abdurrahman, deputy chairman of Communist Youth organisation 152
Abram Andrew, English traveller 35
Abramov, interpreter 107
Adamishin Anatoli, Soviet diplomat, criticises invasion in diary 110
Advisers 7, 106, 152, 162, 164–5
Casualties 45, 53, 166
Foreign advisers with mujahedin 134
Helping to suppress rebels? 53, 167
Idealism of 149
Interpreters 153
Military advisers 124, 150
Not targetted by mujahedin 160
Numbers increase in 1979 150
Numbers run down from 1986 168
Party advisers 151
Poor results in the countryside 162
Security arrangements 161
Senior advisers in Kabul replaced 74
Murdered 139
Undermine Afghans’ responsibility 148, 176
Intelligence tasks 166
Youth advisers 151
Afganets—inhabitant of Afghanistan, hot wind, Soviet veteran 194, 326
Afgantsy, veterans of war in Afghanistan.
Afghan army 151, 272, 279
Attitude of Soviet soldiers towards 138
Betrayal of 223
Brutality of 232
Daud procures Soviet weapons for 16
Desertions 136
Dependent on Soviet supplies 296
Everywhere on defensive 299
Will it resist Soviet invasion? 80
Mutiny in Herat 6
