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Alex, I'll take Afghanistan history for 10 points please. How many died during the Russian war?
Headed to Afghanistan soon and looking up history. I can find all the info I want on Russia getting its butt kicked during operation "brotherly aid" but can't find out any numbers on Afghan military/civilian losses. Any help?
Estimated 200,000 Mujahideen insurgents. But Russia basically used scorched earth tactics campaign destroying villages, houses, crops, and livestock. It was basically an attempt at genocide. Poison gas, poisoning village wells, Russian-made PFM-1, (one of the so-called "toy-mines") made to attract children. There are mine fields still marked off today. If you fly into BAF go by the old hospital. It has barracades around the minefield. The estimated loss of civilian life is just over a million dead, wounded and permantely maimed. With 80,000 to 100,000 on the ground at any one time they only were able to control a maximum of 20% of the countryside.
They lost:
118 jet aircrafts
333 helicopters
147 main battle tanks
1,314 IFV/APCs
433 artillery and mortars
1,138 radio sets and command vehicles
510 engineering vehicles
11,369 trucks and petrol tankers
Many of those are hulks you can still see around as monuments to Russian's failed goal.
The Kite Runner , How does the history of Afghanistan influence the way Amir's life develops?
Amir and Afghanistan are both haunted by the past.
How does the history of Afghanistan influence the way Amir's life develops?How could the two be compared? How much control , or influence do external conflicts have over internal conflicts ?
Because Afghanistan was invaded by the soviet, that led Amir and his father to go to America, he had to get used to a new culture and a new language. He had to leave his home country, that probably had an effect on the way on his life developed.
Kite Runner-How was Amir's past similar to the history of Afghanistan?
Present-day , Afghanistan is haunted by its history in the same way Amir is haunted by his past.What are some of the ways that the two can be compared?
see these study notes
http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/kiterunner/
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