Advises talks with mujahedin leaders 273
Criticises invasion in diary 109
Chief Soviet Military Adviser 42, 55, 74, 83, 85, 229, 240, 290
Residence attacked by mujahedin 159
CIA 203, 285
Alleged CIA officer captured 139
Attempts to buy back Stingers 205
Considers moving electronic facilities to Afghanistan 78
Early proposals to support mujahedin 114
Fears post-war regime in Kabul will be anti-American 296
Growing support for mujahedin 114
Amin not a CIA agent 79
Officers killed by suicide bomber 214
William Casey becomes Director 114
Codrington Captain, British officer massacred in First Afghan War 206
Commanders 124
Lack background for war in Afghanistan 125
Wrestle with problem of preventing atrocities 225
Conscripts 170
Danchev, Soviet newsreader 243
Dar-ul Aman Palace 34
Dari language 13, 106, 126, 151, 154
Daud Mohamed (1909–78), Afghan ruler 17, 28, 30–33, 39–40, 43
Appointed prime minister, 1953 16
Deposes Zahir Shah 31
Ousted by Zahir Shah 16
Killed in coup 37, 41
Quarrels with Brezhnev over Western advisers 33
Defections to mujahedin 257–9
GRU defector murdered by comrades in revenge 265
Demobilisation 88, 170, 179, 249–50
Dembel, soldier due for demobilisation 251
Demobilisation rituals 249–52
Desmaisons Pierre, Russian secret agent 21
Didkin Nikolai, Soviet soldier 269
Directorate for Interservices Intelligence (ISI), Pakistani military intelligence 201, 297
Disillusion and Criticism 109–10, 235, 239–41, 243
Disraeli Benjamin (1804–81), British Prime MInister 26
Dolmatov, Soviet officer, commands Operation
DOMA, Democratic Organisation of Afghan Youth 152, 163–4
Dostum Abdul Rashid (1954-), Afghan commander 260, 301–2
DRA (Democratic Republic of Afghanistan) 42, 85, 103, 137, 268
Drozdov General Yuri, KGB officer 90, 93–4, 98, 101
Dubnov Arkadi, Russian journalist 304
Dubs Adolph, US ambassador, assassinated 54
Dubynin General V, 40th Army commander 1986–7 124
Dukhovchenko, leads rising in Badaber 266
Dulepov Vadim, bard 312
Dupree Louis, scholar 17
Durand Line, artificial border between Afghanistan and Pakistan 13, 28
Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan 116, 304–6
Dyshev Andrei, author 158
Educational reforms 16
Eisenhower President, visits Kabul 30
Ekbal Lieutenant, one of Taraki’s murderers 72–3
eksperimentalka, experimental dress uniform 251
Ermacora Felix, UN human rights representative 231
Faisabad, Afghan town 166, 176–9, 188, 194–5, 209, 212, 230, 283
Bombed by Soviets 143
Triples in size 334
Farakh province 165
Faryab province 167
Fedorov Dmitri, sergeant in 860th Regiment 188, 261
Returns to Afghanistan as a tourist 334
Gai David, Soviet journalist 283
Gang of Four 59, 62–3, 92
Gardez, Afghan town 53, 213, 215
Gavrya Alexander, youth adviser 164
Generalov General L, Commander of 40th Army, 1983–5 124
Geneva Agreements 202, 283, 285–6, 290–91, 296
Genghis Khan (?1162–1227), Mongol conqueror 12, 27, 86
Ghaffur Engineer, downs three Soviet helicopters 203
Girardet Edward, American correspondent 144
Glavnoe Razvedyvatelnoe Upravlenie (GRU), Soviet military intelligence organisation 56, 61, 63, 126, 133, 136, 186, 268, 275
Glushak Natasha, killed on returning from wedding 156
Golovin Captain, aircraft crashes 87
Golubev Colonel, commander of KGB detachment 82
Gorbachev Mikhail (1931–), Soviet politician 52, 238, 272, 274, 279–80, 282, 289, 296, 310
And withdrawal 142, 272–4
Attempted coup, August 1991 310
Complains about overweening Soviet advisers 276
Criticised by military 309
Determined to solve Afghan problem 272
Meeting with Reagan. December 1987 280
Nightmare that a bloodbath would follow Soviet withdrawal 281
Policies best available? 310
The ‘Gorbachev surge’ 272
Withdraws six regiments—West treats it as a propaganda stunt 277
XXVIIth Congress of Soviet Communist Party, February 1986 274
Gorchakov Alexander, Russian foreign minister (1798–1883) 11, 23
Gorelov General Lev, Chief Soviet Military Adviser in Afghanistan 1975–9 42, 45, 55, 66, 74
Goricheva Tatiana, protests against Afghan war 108
Gorky (Nizhni Novgorod), Russian city 108, 237
