Riddles of the Afghan war

The author of this book is Colonel General Viktor Arkadievich Mirimsky (1919-2003), a participant in the Soviet-Finnish and Great Patriotic Wars. In 1979-1984, he was the deputy head of the operational group of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, where he was responsible for the preparation and leadership of the combat operations of units and units of the limited contingent of the Soviet Army and Afghan forces. In his memoirs V.A. Merimsky talks about the first years of the Afghan war, gives unique details of the course of hostilities and the development of the political situation in the republic, gives detailed characteristics to a number of Soviet generals and officers, the main figures of the Kabul regime and its most famous opponents.
In the applications, an essay on the military-political situation in Afghanistan and around it over the past quarter century and biographical certificates about some Soviet military leaders are placed