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Russia Bewildered at Afghanistan Expecting Apologies for Soviet Campaign – Ministry

19th July, 2018 · admin 4 Comments
Soviet Troops (file photo)

Soviet Troops (file photo)

MOSCOW, July 18 (Sputnik) – Afghanistan’s statement that Russia should apologize to the Afghan people for the decade-long Soviet military operation in Afghanistan “raises nothing but surprise and bewilderment,” Russian Foreign Ministry’s Second Asian Department Director Zamir Kabulov told Sputnik on Wednesday.

Earlier in the day, Afghan Ambassador to Russia Abdul Qayyum Kochai said that the Afghan people want apologies for what he called were mistakes of the Soviet government in Afghanistan, including Moscow’s recognition of the communist leadership and the military campaign that started in December 1979.

“The Soviet government recognized the new leadership in Afghanistan and was developing normal relations with it. The troops were deployed later, as a result of actions against that leadership. The statement [on Afghanistan expecting apologies] raises nothing but surprise and bewilderment,” Kabulov said, adding that Russia will not apologize to anyone.

The offensive was dubbed a Cold War proxy conflict, with the Soviet army fighting US-backed militants in an attempt to ensure that the communist government led by Nur Mohammad Taraki stayed in power after the 1978 coup. Soviet forces eventually left Afghanistan in early 1989.


Posted in History, Russia-Afghanistan Relations | Tags: Abdul Qayoum Kochai |
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4 thoughts on “Russia Bewildered at Afghanistan Expecting Apologies for Soviet Campaign – Ministry”

  1. Baghlani says:
    July 19, 2018 at 5:14 am

    No body needs an
    apology from the rats
    who have had committed heinous
    crimes on regular
    Muslims
    in
    Chechnya and Syria.
    ===============
    ========
    ===
    The psychopaths
    are intent
    on
    exploiting and damaging
    Islamic countries.
    ======
    They cowards
    can never be
    trusted.

  2. Baghlani says:
    July 19, 2018 at 5:28 am

    THE ANGLO/US WAR CRIMINSLS ARE BANKING ON
    RUSSIAN INFLUENCE TO MOBALIZE THE EX-COMMINIST AND DOASTUM MILLITIAS
    AGAINST
    THE ISLAMIC FREEDOM FIGHTERS
    OF
    AFGHANISTAN!

  3. Baghlani says:
    July 19, 2018 at 5:29 am

    The thugs and the thug-mars
    are
    in
    action again.

  4. Baghlani says:
    July 27, 2018 at 2:27 pm

    *
    *THE ORIGINAL
    ISLAMIC EMPIRE
    OF
    AFGHANISTAN
    WAS
    FOUNDED (999-930 AD)
    *BY
    *SULTAN MAHMOOD
    GHAZNAWI
    ================================*THE MODERN ISLAMIC
    EMPIRE
    OF
    AFGHANISTAN
    WAS
    ESTABLISHED (1747-1772 AD)
    *BY
    *AHMAD SHAH ((BAH-BAH))
    DURRANI

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