My peers, 20 and 30 year old men, took part in the Afghan war in 1979-1989. More than 546 thousand Soviet citizens went through this military conflict. The losses of our country amounted, according to various sources, from 14 to 15 thousand people. But the consequences of the war lasted for years and affected civil society within the USSR.
In 1992, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Justice published the collection “Crime and Offenses.” In the last pre-war year, 1978, 1.3 million crimes were registered, and in the first post-war year - 1990 - 2.78 million. According to Kommersant , in 1989 at least 3.7 thousand “Afghans” were convicted for murders and robberies. According to the USSR Ministry of Defense, 6,669 people became disabled.
My comrade Boris Nemtsov openly opposed the First and Second Chechen Wars. Many people were sent to the First Chechen War from Nizhny Novgorod, where Boris Efimovich was the governor. The dead in the two wars number in the thousands, the wounded in the tens of thousands. There were 13 thousand registered disabled participants in combat operations in Chechnya and Dagestan in 2001 .
Now thousands of sons of veterans of Afghanistan and Chechnya have been mobilized in the Northern Military District. Our government has found itself not in developing a strategy to increase the birth rate, but in consistently inflicting trauma on its people.
Boris Nemtsov collected a million signatures to show the President: citizens are against the First Chechen War. In 2024, you and I collected more than 200 thousand signatures for Russia to become peaceful again.
https://t.me/BorisNadezhdin/858
Russian losses in Ukraine are almost 400 000.
95,587 signatures for Boris Nadezhdin were recognized as valid (9,147 were invalid).