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My academic blog with history, primarily military history as the main theme. Please leave a comment that can be relevant and useful for the topic which you find interesting. I am writing in several languages, including English, depending on the theme and the languages of the sources. At the moment I am working as guide at Batteriet Arholma military museum in Stockholm. For further information please contact me on lauvlad89@gmail.com

tisdag 17 september 2019

Memorial for the military personnel who participated in the Afghanistan war 1979-1989

For more information about the memorial, please visit this page






Translation: "Eternal glory to the brave sons of Ukraine who died in Afganistan" 





The monument. 





Names of the fallen ones. Around 5000 soldiers and officers from the contemporary Ukrainian Soviet Republic dies during the war in Afghanistan. Almost every fifth Soviet military personnel who died was from Ukraine. 


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