Posted on 08/04/2017 8:44:44 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
This is the Soviet soldier found alive 30 years after dying in Afghanistan
By Blake Stilwell
Aug. 03, 11:08 AM
Shortly after the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, the Russian 101st Motorized Rifles were caught in a firefight with the Mujahideen near the city of Herat. A young soldier, 20-year-old Bakhretdin Khakimov, was wounded in the fighting, lost on the battlefield, and presumed dead.
Until now.
Bakhretdin Khakimov in 1980 and now.
Khakimov was a draftee from Samarkand who had only been in the Red Army a short time when he was injured in Herat Province, near Shindand. Some 30 years later, a group of Soviet war veterans founded the Committee for International Soldiers, a group whose mission is to find and identify missing Soviet soldiers or their remains. Most, like Khakimov, are presumed to be dead.
The young soldier now goes by the name of Sheikh Abdullah. He was rescued from the battlefield by locals, nursed back to health and opted to stay with those that helped him survive. He later married an Afghan woman and settled down to a semi-nomadic life. His wife has since died and he does the same work as the man who rescued him.
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He chose to stay with his Muslim brothers.
No functional difference between global socialism and Islam.
His transformation into a dirt monkey is almost complete...
Those that have been there know what I am talking about.
So he wasn’t a Soviet, he was from Uzbekistan, a muslim city of Samarkand. Probably felt right at home.
Uzbeks - They are the weak link in the Great Chain of Socialism.
Bingo!
Maybe I’m wrong but I don’t think he looks like the guy in the photo.
Other pics at link. It appears to be him.
Any surprise that conscripts from the Central Asian republics might have preferred desertion and disappearing into a familiar cultural background?
I know what you mean to say was:
“So he wasnt a Soviet, he was from Samarkand, a Muslim city in Uzbekistan. Probably felt right at home.”
Regardless of who he was or what country he fought for, to all of us who’ve been in war, there but for the grace of God go we.
The Commies have better clothes.
If an Islamist backwater like Afghanistan is preferable, that says a LOT.
“... chose to stay with his Muslim brothers”
Just like McMasters sounds like
The lure of the good life was to great for him.
probably to him, preferable to being in the Soviet Army.
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