Becomes Head of State 42
Flies to Havana 62
Intrigues against Amin 58
Last meeting with Brezhnev 62
Leader of Khalq faction 38
Murdered 72
Repeats requests for Soviet troops 55
Summoned to Moscow March 1979 50
Tarun Major, Afghan officer 62, 64, 66–7
Tashkurgan, Afghan town, last HQ of 40th Army 291
Ter-Grigoriants General 184
Thatcher Margaret (1925–), British prime minister 113
Tkach General B, commander of 40th Army, 1980–82 124
Tkachev Colonel Anatoli, GRU, negotiates ceasefire with Masud 185–6
Tsagolov Colonel Kim, critic of Soviet policy in Afghanistan 241
Tsarandoi, Afghan government gendarmerie 90, 135, 137
Tsevma Gennadi, Russian convert to Islam 258
Tukharinov General Yu, first commander of 40th Army, 1979–80 84, 87, 124, 140
Ural mountains, Russia 255
US policy aims 114
Ustinov Dmitri (1908–94), Soviet defence minister 51–2, 54–5, 69, 74–5, 79, 125, 223, 229, 270
Ceases to be a hawk 271
Discusses Herat rising 46, 48–49
Issues orders for invasion 77, 85–86,
Member of Committee on Afghanistan 60
Sends paratroopers to defend Bagram 57
Uzbekistan 13, 78, 153, 302
Vadud Captain, member of Taraki’s guard 72–3
Varennikov Valentin (1929–2009), Soviet general 203, 227, 275, 285, 289, 310–11, 317
Arrested for role in coup 312
Attends Politburo meeting, May 1987 279
Furious at Shevardnadze’s betrayal of military 288
Involved in coup against Gorbachev 310
Leads delegation to Kabul after withdrawal 296
Negotiates ceasefire with Masud 285
Pays respects at Masud’s grave 305
Signs directive on press coverage of war 236
Sorts out attack on Zhawar 214
Strongly criticises Gorbachev in his memoirs 310
Visits
Vaskov Igor, Soviet soldier 269
Veselkov General, Soviet Interior Ministry adviser in Kabul 74
Veterans (Afgantsy) 158, 173, 191–3, 215, 245, 249, 257
Defend White House 311
Discover the internet 325
Figures for 329
Memory plays tricks 115
Problems of 313–27
Return to Afghanistan as tourists 334
Veterans Organisations
Administration for Afghan Questions 316
Boevoe Bratstvo 317, 326
Presidential Committee for Soldier-Internationalist Affairs 257
Russian Fund for Invalids of the War in Afghanistan (RFIVA) 317
Chairman Mikhail Likhodei Assassinated 317
Chairman Sergei Trakhirov Assassinated 317
Russian Union of Veterans of Afghanistan (RSFA) 317
First chairman Lyagin Yevgeni 317
Union of Veterans of Afghanistan (SVA) 316
Veterans Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States 268
Vietnam 111, 114, 274, 289, 315, 333
Charlie Wilson seeks revenge for 114
Distracts American attention from Afghanistan 30
Inadequate US tactics in 127
Massacre at My Lai, 1968 225
Parallel with Afghanistan 114, 245, 331
US helicopter losses in 205
Viktor, Soviet deserter 264–5
Vilnius, massacre in January 1991 310
Vitkevich,
Vlasov General, killed on operations 151
Voenkomat, recruiting office 155
Voentorg, military shop 154, 188
Volkogonov General Dmitri (1928–96) 241
Vorontsov Yuli, Soviet ambassador in Kabul 61, 286, 290
Vostrotin Valeri, Soviet officer, Hero of the Soviet Union 91, 116, 215, 326
Vygovski Yuri, officer in 860th Regiment 326
Vysotski Vladimir, popular Soviet bard 192
Wahid Colonel, KhAD commander 183
Wajiha, popular singer 36
Wakil Abdul, Afghan Communist politician 53, 100–101
Wali Shah, Amin’s foreign minister 71
Wardak Amin, mujahedin commander 144
Watanjar Muhammed Aslam, Afghan officer and politician 31, 40–42, 59, 63, 67–8, 83, 92, 99
Wellington, Duke of (1789–1852) 225
Western highway 208
Western TV 207, 284
Wilson Charlie (1933–2010), American politician 114, 215
Witkiewicz Jan (1808–39), Russian secret agent 21
Women 123, 154–8, 229
Attacks on Afghan women in 1970s 184
Communists promise rights 5, 43
Employment opportunities for Afghan women after 1963 16
Failure of reforms 14, 18
