the head of the political department of the 280th separate helicopter regiment, lieutenant colonel frolkin it to the museum. tver cemetery of dmitrev cherkassy, ​​here is the alley of heroes, where afghan veterans reburied their comrades. here is an international debt - this is 85, that’s all, it’s a miracle that the parents wrote it, and now look at the rest, afghanistan is not written anywhere there, in soviet times on the graves of boys who returned to their homeland in zinc coffins. it was forbidden to write where they died, it was forbidden indicate what awards marked their exploits, the country and government seemed embarrassed by these military actions, if a guy from our city, who fought in spain half a century earlier, returned as a hero, then with afghanistan it turned out differently: the soviet ideological system was openly stalled, the veteran an afghan, as a rule, did not receive due respect; by default he was recommended to dissolve in... the soviet ideological machine had openly stalled since the mid-seventies, but to be ashamed of this war or to make it out of it some kind