Alexey Kondaurov on revising the assessment of the war in Afghanistan

It is clear why this is being done today and from whom the go-ahead was “personally” received, but the chores are all equally empty: you can’t rewrite history, no matter how much you want

The Congress of People's Deputies of the USSR, elected (including by me) in 1989 in compliance with all possible democratic procedures, condemned the introduction of troops into Afghanistan.

The current deputies, certainly not elected by me, after 30 years, decided to cancel that decision, believing that the actions of the Soviet leadership on military intervention in the affairs of a foreign state were geopolitically justified and morally irreproachable.

It is clear why this is being done today and from whom the go-ahead was received “personally”, but the chores are still empty: you cannot rewrite history, no matter how much you want.
And the story is that the introduction of troops into Afghanistan became a fatal mistake of the Soviet leadership, which led to unnecessary human casualties (on both sides), moral breakdown due to a lack of understanding of the goals and absolute futility of that war, colossal economic costs - which, in aggregate, greatly accelerated the collapse of the USSR.

Those who are on Okhotny Ryad, due to their youth, may not even imagine what attitude to this decision prevailed then among people with epaulettes, but I remember very well that if at first they were neutral about the fact that they got in there, and they even clicked their tongues pretty, discussing Alpha’s special operation to seize Amin’s palace, then a couple of years later, when they fought there, losing people and shedding blood, it was no longer a secret for the majority that the country had got into a mess and there would be no good outcome.

We have seen enough of Ursulyuk and, well, stir up something that would be better not to stir up at all, but leave it to historians to figure it out and give assessments.