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From 1979 to 1989, a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties-- and the youth and humanity of many tens of thousands more. In Zinky Boys journalist Svetlana Alexievich gives voice to the tragic history of the Afghanistan War. What emerges is a story that is shocking in its brutality and revelatory in its similarities to the American experience in Vietnam-- a resemblance that Larry Heinemann describes movingly in his introduction to the book, providing American readers with an often uncomfortably intimate connection to a war that may have seemed very remote to us. The Soviet dead were shipped back in sealed zinc coffins (hence the term "Zinky Boys"), while the State denied the very existence of the conflict; even today the radically altered Soviet society continues to reject the memory of the "Soviet Vietnam." Creating controversy and outrage when it was first published in the USSR-- it was called by reviewers there a "slanderous piece of fantasy" and part of a "hysterical chorus of malign attacks"--Zinky Boys presents the candid and affecting testimony of the officers and grunts, nurses and prostitutes, mothers, sons, and daughters who describe the war and its lasting effects. Svetlana Alexievich has snatched from the memory hole the truth of the Afghanistan War-- the beauty of the country and the savage Army bullying, the killing and the mutilation, the profusion of Western goods, the shame and shattered lives of returned veterans. Zinky Boys offers a unique, harrowing, and unforgettably powerful insight into the realities of war and the turbulence of Soviet life today.… (meer)
Alexievich laat in dit boek, na fragmenten over de oorlog in Afghanistan uit haar eigen dagboek, een bijna eindeloze stoet dienstplichtige soldaten en beroepsmilitairen, burgerpersoneel en nabestaanden van deze drie categorieën aan het woord over wat zij hebben beleefd tijdens de bezetting van Afghanistan door de Sovjet-Unie.
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(Edition Actes Sud, 2018, Lettres russes)
Le 20 janvier 1801, les Cosaques du Don de l’ataman Vassili Orlov reçurent l’ordre de marcher sur l’Inde. Un mois leur était donné pour atteindre Orenbourg et, là, trois mois “pour rejoindre le fleuve Indus en passant par Boukhara et Khiva”. Trente mille cosaques allaient bientôt traverser la Volga et s’enfoncer dans les steppes kazakhes.
En lutte pour le pouvoir. Pages de l’histoire politique de la Russie du xviie siècle, Moscou, Mysl, 1988, p. 475.
(Edition Actes Sud, 2018, Lettres russes)
En décembre 1979, les dirigeants soviétiques prirent la décision d’envoyer des troupes en Afghanistan. La guerre se poursuivit de 1979 à 1989. Elle dura neuf ans, un mois et dix-neuf jours. Plus d’un demi-million de combattants d’un contingent limité de troupes soviétiques sont passés par l’Afghanistan. Les pertes totales des Forces armées soviétiques se sont montées à 15 051 hommes. 417 hommes ont été portés disparus ou faits prisonniers. Début 2000, il demeurait 287 hommes qui n’étaient pas rentrés de captivité et n’avaient toujours pas été localisés.
Polit.ru, 19 novembre 2003.
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From 1979 to 1989, a million Soviet troops engaged in a devastating war in Afghanistan that claimed 50,000 casualties-- and the youth and humanity of many tens of thousands more. In Zinky Boys journalist Svetlana Alexievich gives voice to the tragic history of the Afghanistan War. What emerges is a story that is shocking in its brutality and revelatory in its similarities to the American experience in Vietnam-- a resemblance that Larry Heinemann describes movingly in his introduction to the book, providing American readers with an often uncomfortably intimate connection to a war that may have seemed very remote to us. The Soviet dead were shipped back in sealed zinc coffins (hence the term "Zinky Boys"), while the State denied the very existence of the conflict; even today the radically altered Soviet society continues to reject the memory of the "Soviet Vietnam." Creating controversy and outrage when it was first published in the USSR-- it was called by reviewers there a "slanderous piece of fantasy" and part of a "hysterical chorus of malign attacks"--Zinky Boys presents the candid and affecting testimony of the officers and grunts, nurses and prostitutes, mothers, sons, and daughters who describe the war and its lasting effects. Svetlana Alexievich has snatched from the memory hole the truth of the Afghanistan War-- the beauty of the country and the savage Army bullying, the killing and the mutilation, the profusion of Western goods, the shame and shattered lives of returned veterans. Zinky Boys offers a unique, harrowing, and unforgettably powerful insight into the realities of war and the turbulence of Soviet life today.
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