Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia · TURNING POINT ·
Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan (1989)
On the Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map as “The last soldier leaves”
15 Feb 1989 — General Boris Gromov, commander of the 40th Army, walks across the Friendship Bridge over the Amu Darya at Termez, the last Soviet soldier to leave Afghanistan. Gorbachev had called the war a “bleeding wound” in 1986; about 15,000 Soviet troops had died in it.
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- Perestroika and glasnost (chapter 8 of Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia)
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- Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000
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