Rodric Braithwaite - Afgantsy

Reports on unpopularity of Soviets 278

Signs Geneva Agreements with heavy heart 282

Tells Shultz Soviets will soon leave 280

Shilka, mobile anti-aircraft gun 92, 97

Shindand, Afghan town 54, 193, 233, 252, 303

Shiryaev Valeri, military interpreter 151, 158, 231

Shkidchenko General, killed on operations 151

Shkirando Alexander, poisoned in Amin’s palace 96

Shomali Plain, ‘green zone’ north of Kabul 206, 217

Shujah Shah (1785–1842), Afghan ruler 14–15

Shultz George (1920–), US Secretary of State 280

shuravi , Afghan word for Soviet 298

Sidorov Colonel Valeri, commander of 860th Regiment 209, 211–13

Skobelev General Mikhail (1843–82), conqueror of Central Asia 24

Slonim Masha, British journalist, rescues drug addicts 191

Smolina Alla, Soviet official 203, 257, 264–5

Snegirev Vladimir, Soviet journalist 149, 189, 238, 258, 333

Snesarev General Andrei (1865–1937), expert on Afghanistan 9, 28

Sneyerov Kostya, soldier in 860th Regiment 326

Sokolov Marshal Sergei, First Deputy Minister of Defence, 84, 88, 141, 186, 222–3, 243, 250

Sotskov General, Chief Military Adviser 1988–9 290

Soviet Union

Contribution of war to Soviet collapse 330

Incoherence of policy making 61

Ministry of Defence prepares for possible invasion 56

Soviet withdrawal

First phase 1988 282

Second phase, winter 1988–9 284

Soviets leave Jalalabad 283

Spin Boldak, Afghan town 303

St Petersburg Faculty of Oriental Languages 22

Stepanov Yuri, Russian convert to Islam 260

Stinger, American anti-aircraft missile 203–5

Sufi Puainda Mokhmad, mujahedin leader 259–60

Sukhoparov Alexander, adviser to Afghan Communist party 106

Suslov Mikhail (1902–82), Soviet Politburo member 77, 80, 237

Tabeev Fikryat, Soviet ambassador in Kabul 61, 75, 87, 105, 276

Taj Bek Palace 89–91, 93, 102, 115, 215

Tajikistan 13, 78, 87, 153, 305–6

Taliban, Islamist movement in Afghanistan 32, 36, 123, 234, 260, 303–4

Brings civil war to an end 302

Operates in Central Asia 78

Talybov Mikhail, KGB agent posing as Amin’s cook 95

Tamberlane (1336–1405), conqueror 12

Tanai Shah Navaz, Afghan officer, later defence minister 45

Joint commander of Operation Magistral 214

Taraki Nur Mohamed (1917–79), Afghan Communist president 7, 17, 39–40, 42, 50–54, 59, 62–9, 73, 81, 93, 95, 112

Arrested by Daud 40

Becomes Head of State 42

Flies to Havana 62

Intrigues against Amin 58

Last meeting with Brezhnev 62

Leader of Khalq faction 38

Murdered 72

Repeats requests for Soviet troops 55

Summoned to Moscow March 1979 50

Tarun Major, Afghan officer 62, 64, 66–7

Tashkurgan, Afghan town, last HQ of 40th Army 291

Ter-Grigoriants General 184

Thatcher Margaret (1925–), British prime minister 113

Tkach General B, commander of 40th Army, 1980–82 124

Tkachev Colonel Anatoli, GRU, negotiates ceasefire with Masud 185–6

Tsagolov Colonel Kim, critic of Soviet policy in Afghanistan 241

Tsarandoi, Afghan government gendarmerie 90, 135, 137

Tsevma Gennadi, Russian convert to Islam 258

Tukharinov General Yu, first commander of 40th Army, 1979–80 84, 87, 124, 140

Ural mountains, Russia 255

US policy aims 114

Ustinov Dmitri (1908–94), Soviet defence minister 51–2, 54–5, 69, 74–5, 79, 125, 223, 229, 270

Ceases to be a hawk 271

Discusses Herat rising 46, 48–49

Issues orders for invasion 77, 85–86,

Member of Committee on Afghanistan 60

Sends paratroopers to defend Bagram 57

Uzbekistan 13, 78, 153, 302

Vadud Captain, member of Taraki’s guard 72–3

Varennikov Valentin (1929–2009), Soviet general 203, 227, 275, 285, 289, 310–11, 317

Arrested for role in coup 312

Attends Politburo meeting, May 1987 279

Furious at Shevardnadze’s betrayal of military 288

Involved in coup against Gorbachev 310

Leads delegation to Kabul after withdrawal 296

Negotiates ceasefire with Masud 285

Pays respects at Masud’s grave 305

Signs directive on press coverage of war 236

Sorts out attack on Zhawar 214

Strongly criticises Gorbachev in his memoirs 310

Visits zastava 141

Vaskov Igor, Soviet soldier 269

Veselkov General, Soviet Interior Ministry adviser in Kabul 74

Veterans (Afgantsy) 158, 173, 191–3, 215, 245, 249, 257

Defend White House 311

Discover the internet 325

Figures for 329

Memory plays tricks 115

Problems of 313–27

Return to Afghanistan as tourists 334

Veterans Organisations

Administration for Afghan Questions 316

Boevoe Bratstvo 317, 326

Presidential Committee for Soldier-Internationalist Affairs 257

Russian Fund for Invalids of the War in Afghanistan (RFIVA) 317

Chairman Mikhail Likhodei Assassinated 317

Chairman Sergei Trakhirov Assassinated 317

Russian Union of Veterans of Afghanistan (RSFA) 317

First chairman Lyagin Yevgeni 317

Union of Veterans of Afghanistan (SVA) 316

Veterans Committee of the Commonwealth of Independent States 268

Vietnam 111, 114, 274, 289, 315, 333

Charlie Wilson seeks revenge for 114

Distracts American attention from Afghanistan 30

Inadequate US tactics in 127

Massacre at My Lai, 1968 225

Parallel with Afghanistan 114, 245, 331

US helicopter losses in 205

Viktor, Soviet deserter 264–5

Vilnius, massacre in January 1991 310

Vitkevich, see Witkiewicz 21

Vlasov General, killed on operations 151

Voenkomat, recruiting office 155

Voentorg, military shop 154, 188

Volkogonov General Dmitri (1928–96) 241

Voronezhskaya Gazeta , newspaper 321

Vorontsov Yuli, Soviet ambassador in Kabul 61, 286, 290

Vostrotin Valeri, Soviet officer, Hero of the Soviet Union 91, 116, 215, 326

Vygovski Yuri, officer in 860th Regiment 326

Vysotski Vladimir, popular Soviet bard 192

Wahid Colonel, KhAD commander 183

Wajiha, popular singer 36

Wakil Abdul, Afghan Communist politician 53, 100–101

Wali Shah, Amin’s foreign minister 71

Wardak Amin, mujahedin commander 144

Watanjar Muhammed Aslam, Afghan officer and politician 31, 40–42, 59, 63, 67–8, 83, 92, 99

Wellington, Duke of (1789–1852) 225

Western highway 208

Western TV 207, 284

Wilson Charlie (1933–2010), American politician 114, 215

Witkiewicz Jan (1808–39), Russian secret agent 21

Women 123, 154–8, 229

Attacks on Afghan women in 1970s 184

chekistki , dismissive name for 158

Communists promise rights 5, 43

Employment opportunities for Afghan women after 1963 16

Failure of reforms 14, 18

Karimova Gulya, character in novel 158

Require armed escort in Jalalabad and Kabul 160

Threatened by mujahedin 232

Yakub Colonel, Afghan Chief of Staff 58, 63, 73, 100–101

Yamshchikov Igor, soldier, returns to Afghanistan as tourist 334

Yazov General Dmitri (1927–), Soviet Defence Minister 1987–91 241, 282, 287, 289, 291, 293

Yegorychev Nikolai, Soviet ambassador in Kabul 1988 61

Yeltsin Boris (1931–2007), Russian politician 258, 303, 306, 311–12

Abandons Najibullah 299

Gives privileges to veterans’ organisations 317

Yepishev General Aleksei (1908–85) 55

Yermakov General V, commander of 40th Army, 1982–3 124

Yermolin Anatoli, Soviet officer 126