I plan to come out of hiding 5 years after the Obama empire collapses.
Posted on 03/05/2013 8:01:17 AM PST by fso301
A Soviet soldier who went missing in Afghanistan nearly 33 years ago has been found living with Afghans in the western province of Herat.
The soldier is semi-nomadic, has the adopted Afghan name Sheikh Abdullah and practises herbal medicine, Russia's RIA news agency reports.
An ethnic Uzbek, he was found by ex-Soviet veterans of the war.
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Was he aware that the war was over?..........
Some 15,000 Red Army soldiers and more than a million Afghans were killed in a decade of fighting between a Soviet-backed government in Kabul and mujahideen fighters armed by the West and Islamic neighbours.
Was he aware that the Soviet Union was over?
Kinda reminds me of that Japanese soldier they found on Gilligan’s Island. Nobody told him Japan lost so he didn’t help the castaways off the island.
***Kinda reminds me of that Japanese soldier they found on Gilligan’s Island.***
When I was on Guam back in 1968 there were warnings on fences near the roads, not to go into the jungle due to the presence of Japanese soldiers still there.
Several years later, a Japanese soldier or two were found alive there.
About the same time there was found a small detachment of Japanese soldiers still hidden in the Philippines.
A Muslim gone more Muslim...not exactly Japanese soldier in the jungle...
That plot line appeared in several TV shows of the ‘60s and ‘70s.
Uzbeks - The Weak Link In the Great Chain of Socialism.
A war is never over for a muslim.
Shouldn’t that read Soviet Deserter found after 33 years?
Seems unlikely an ethnic Russian could have stuck it out over there for so long. I remember the time the Afghans nearly killed Dan Rather’s cameraman because he had blue eyes.
I plan to come out of hiding 5 years after the Obama empire collapses.
Hey Georgy, Uzbeks drank my battery fluid.
Must have found a goat to his liking.
Those are funny! Just what I needed. Who makes them?
It was an SCTV show from about 1980. The gag was that their satellite had gotten knocked off course and instead was beaming Russian channel CCCP 1. The whole episode was like that.
I think around 9% of Uzbek’s are Christian, mostly Russians posted there by force by the government.
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