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What They Left Behind: The Soviet Union in Afghanistan

Running water and electricity were only intermittently available and almost completely unavailable with the start of the civil war in Residents had to dig vatten wells or travel to other neighborhoods that contained them. Similarly, throughout the Soviet occupation, Kabul was under construction and transformation, with the mikrorayon complex meant to serve as the reflection of a new society. The U. Stanikzai City is one such example of the new luxury development taking place.

Cheap, but not always safe , traditional heating systems or sandali stoves , sunlight, and gas or kerosene lanterns replaced electric equipment. Soviet leaders expected that these developments would show the local population in Soviet-occupied Kabul that there was a positive side to accepting their rule. Of course, these modernization attempts were poor compensation, in the eyes of the majority of Afghans, for the havoc brought by the war.

After almost a decade of occupation, in February —twenty-five years ago—the Soviet Union completed withdrawal of its combat forces across the Friendship Bridge from the Afghan city of Hairatan into Termez, Uzbekistan. If the apartment complexes started as signs of social change and progress, with the arrival of the Soviet military and the increased shelling of the city, they had to be adjusted to conditions of regress wrought by war.

These are found 3km from downtown Kabul. Due to rocket shelling, windows had to be taped to prevent injury from glass shards, and basements came to function as civilian bunkers. Photo by Robert Sanchez. They stand alongside mud houses clinging atop mountains and the traditional brick and wood houses of the inner city. Today, the most visible remnants of the Soviet era in Kabul are the prefabricated concrete residential complexes known as mikrorayon from the Russian.

The Ohio State University website. If architecture is, in any way, indicative of individual tastes, then these buildings are certainly signs of individuality, in addition to economic growth. Kopp saw the Bolshevik Revolution as an event embodied in modernist architecture, but also facilitated and constructed by it.

Inbördeskriget i afghanistan On Christmas Eve , the Soviet Union began an invasion of Afghanistan, its Central Asian neighbor to the south.

Afghanistan usa krig The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from to The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between the DRA, the Soviet Union and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters.

Afghanistan sovjet kriget konsekvenser Sovjet: 14 döda (totalt) [10] 9 döda inom strid [10] 2 döda av skador [10] 2 döda av sjukdomar och olyckor [10] 53 skadade [10] saknade Afghanska regeringen: 18 + [11] Mujaheddin: 75 –90 döda [12] Civila: Omkring 1 miljon [13], 5 miljoner afghanska flyktingar och 2 miljoner internflyktingar.

Hur slutade kriget i afghanistan The final and complete withdrawal of the Soviet 40th Army from Afghanistan began on and ended on 15 February , under the leadership of Colonel-General Boris Gromov.

It also left a rebuilt skyline. The war quickly confronted the residents of Kabul with unanticipated problems. In late December —thirty-five years ago this month—the Soviet army entered Afghanistan to stabilize the pro-Soviet Afghan government and offer support in its fight with rebel forces. And they were designed as a means to use architecture—especially architectures of living spaces—to transform the social and cultural practices of Afghans to match Soviet visions of modernity.

A Turning Point in World History: 40 years ago, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan

A six-story, Soviet-built mikrorayon in Kabul, Photo by Michal Hvorecky The war quickly confronted the residents of Kabul with unanticipated problems. As the United States haltingly finishes up its long presence in Afghanistan , there is much to learn from the Soviet experience about the type of legacy that the U. One of those legacies will surely be architectural. Mikrorayon construction came in two waves: four-floor apartment buildings built beginning in the s when the Soviet Union began investing heavily in Afghanistan and then six-story buildings that grew up into the sky in the s during the invasion.