If you want to ask which Soviet Red Army is the most powerful in Afghanistan now, any insider knows that it is the 103rd Airborne Division.
During the suppression of the Prague Spring, the 103rd Airborne Division told the world how a unit of the Airborne Forces could overthrow a country overnight, and the Soviet Ministry of Defense once again proved the correctness of the formula for the victory of the Airborne Forces of the Air Transport Corps.
However, after such a team came to Afghanistan, it made a big mistake in the last month of 1980.
Hafizollah Kassim Vardak, an unknown fellow, an ordinary Afghan soldier who graduated from the Kabul Military Academy, led his group of guerrillas, who were not even soldiers, to defeat the 103rd Airborne Division, which was enshrined in all textbooks, which was a fairytale victory.
Although the Soviets later announced that they had eliminated most of the armed forces led by Hafizollah Kassim Vardak, and killed their second man, Abdul, Hafizollah Kassim Vardak's own brother.
But anyone with a discerning eye understands that if it were not for the contradictions between the Pashtun and Tajik tribes, Hafizollah Kassim Vardak could have eliminated these Soviets almost effortlessly.
Hafizollah Kassim Vardak's name instantly became popular among the SN fighters.
These guerrillas know what level they are, and they shoot cold, plant mines, sabotage roads, power lines, oil pipelines, and at most build bombs to sabotage government departments.
Now there is a team that fought the Soviets with real swords and guns, and almost annihilated the other side.
Hafizola Kassim Vardak instantly earned the respect of almost all SN fighters.
Except, of course, Hafizollah Kassim Wardak's neighbors, and no clan wants to be a neighbor of a powerful armed force, even if they are nominal allies.
Soon, Hafizo Rakassim Wardak's territory appeared with many admirers.
There are small armed forces that bring people to take refuge, and these people have a bad reputation, sometimes they are soldiers, sometimes they are bandits, there are few times when they are soldiers, and there are many times when they are bandits.
Hafizollah Kassim Vardak will not let these people join his team.
For Hafizo Lakassim Vardak, others are much more reliable.
The first person to reach out to Hafizollah Kassim Vardak was from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence Service.
They brought U.S. weapons and financial support to Hafizollah Kassim Vardak, and Hafizollah Kassim Vardak had no reason to refuse their kindness, and he could see that the Inter-Services Intelligence Service was just an intermediary, and it was the Americans who stood behind the Inter-Services Intelligence Office who really took a fancy to Hafizollah Kassim Vardak.
The second link, Hafizollah Kassim Vardak, is Afghanistan's neighbor N, and Hafizollah Kassim Vardak is only interested in the military advisers sent by the N-country, but not much in the weapons provided by the N-country, after all, there are American weapons in front of the pearl.
It's a pity that the Americans behind the intelligence of the three services don't want their weapons, such as anti-aircraft missiles, to fall into the hands of the N people, so Hafizo Rakassim Vardak can only refuse the help of the N people.
The third wave of people came to the door with SN volunteers from all over the world, most of them from the Middle East.
These people were generally well educated and full of ideals, and Hafizollah Kassim Vardak was full of affection for them.
Although they could not go to war immediately, Hafizollah Kassim Vardak kept them all behind, and he set up a training camp for these volunteers, selecting several excellent fighters from among his men to train them.
It can be said that during this time, Hafizo Rakassim Vardak's strength has not only been resurrected with full blood, but also has made a quantitative and qualitative leap.
He was now more confident of fighting the Soviets, but it would take some time for the illiterate partisans under Hafizo Rakassim Vardak to master advanced American-style weapons, and some time for the newly recruited SN volunteers from various countries to train.
So Hafizollah Kassim Vardak needed time to recuperate, so he temporarily reduced his military activities.
Hafizollah Kassim Vardak went into hiding for the time being, but the other SN fighters were inspired by Hafizollah Kassim Vardak's victory and became active like a chicken.
In just one month, several explosions occurred in the city of Kabul, and the Afghan government army and the police of the Internal Affairs Bureau were exhausted and could not maintain the safety of the citizens of Kabul at all, and the Afghan government could only turn to the Soviet army for help.
However, Seryosha did not have the heart to care about the outside affairs at this time, and as Seryosha and they successfully passed the paratrooper assessment, Seryosha was officially appointed as the platoon commander.
The rank was directly changed to second lieutenant, and from then on Seryosha became an officer of the Red Army, and he was no longer a big soldier.
However, what Seryosha did not expect was that he immediately ran into big trouble when he became a platoon commander, because he had never been an officer in a combat unit and lacked experience.
In his previous life, Seryosha participated in the armed police force, and on weekdays, he faced the "best of the best" among ordinary people such as drug dealers and smugglers.
And the 103rd Airborne Division is an airborne unit that can be equated with special forces, and their enemies are professional soldiers with military qualities.
Moreover, when the armed police are faced with criminals, they are in an advantageous position in most situations.
However, the Airborne Forces are small and large, using small forces to destroy valuable targets, and most of the time they have to face an enemy several times their size.
These differences made Seryosha unsuitable for the position of platoon commander quarterly.
What made Seryosha even more angry was that among these newcomers who graduated from the new barracks, all the excellent guys were snatched away by other platoons, and Seryosha's soldiers were all unwanted by others.
Because Seryosha has just taken office, he can't compete with those old platoon commanders in other platoons.
Lack of experience and a bad hand, the troops led by Seryosha were at the bottom of several consecutive assessments.
Seryosha not only felt that his face was gloomy, but more importantly he felt sorry for the head of the regiment Grachev, who had given him trust.
It is impossible for Seryosha to ask Grachev to help in this matter, after all, he is the head of the regiment and wants a bowl of water.
Moreover, the instructors introduced by Grachev were mainly in charge of ideological and political affairs, not military affairs, and Seryosha could not consult with him at all.
The most terrible thing is that Seryosha, who has just joined the army for less than a year, has no connections among the officers, and only Lebed, introduced by Grachev, can still speak.
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