Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PAIN. Director Sergei Lukyanchikov's critical documentary on the Afghanistan war. In one of the most striking scenes, a veteran who lost an arm asks, "If ((the Afghans)) came here to help us 'build socialism,' how would we react?" Answering his own question, he admits, "They hated...
...Museum of Modern Art in tandem with Boris Frumin's The Errors of Youth, shot in 1978 but just completed this year. Eleven Soviet filmmakers are touring the U.S. with Glasnost Film Festival, whose 22 documentaries include robust exposes on Chernobyl, the Armenian revolt and the war in Afghanistan...
...need for cooperation from Muslim countries and for popular support along the potentially troublesome southern Asia flank. (In Azerbaidzhan, a few Muslims have been waving photos of the Ayatullah Khomeini or sprouting Iranian-style beards. However, there is sparse evidence of religious fanaticism, either inspired by neighboring Iran and Afghanistan or encouraged by the Soviets' own tolerance.) The crucial factor is awareness inside the Kremlin that economic and cultural stagnation stems largely from the Communists' dogged policy of repressing religion and other forms of independent thought. Islam, like the country's other religions, is a major beneficiary of "new thinking...
...gloom of a hospital ward, an injured man contemplating his future, a young soldier's face on a tombstone: all part of the aftermath of a war the Soviets started in 1979 and abandoned last February, when the last of Moscow's troops rolled out of Afghanistan. The Kremlin's misadventure not only cost the lives of some 15,000 Soviet soldiers and left 35,000 injured but also marked the first time the U.S.S.R. had ever been defeated in war. As illustrated by these photographs, mostly taken at a military hospital outside Moscow, the agony of Afghanistan goes...
...spent by Hitler's Wehrmacht, the U.S. instigated a policy of containment in response to the expansionist foreign policy pursued by the Soviet Union. The mutually exclusive nature of these stances led to the Cold War, which has been fought in Korea, the Bay of Pigs, Vietnam, Nicaragua and Afghanistan...