Hi Yogi; Re: "There is no way Russia should have lost 500,000 dead.... they were being stubborn, and made many stupid mistakes.
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Soviet dead and missing in Afghanistan amounted to almost 15,000 troops, a modest percent of the 642,000 Soviets who served during the ten-year war. Far more telling were the 469,685 other casualties, fully 73 percent of the overall force, who were wounded or incapacitated by serious illness. Some 415,932 troops fell victim to disease, of which 115,308 suffered from infectious hepatitis and 31,080 from typhoid fever.
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bdg.minsk.by
In other words, they lost in Afghanistan about 1/4 of what we lost in Vietnam. Some stubborn.
-- Carl |
