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9th Company is a 2005 Russian war film directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk. The film follows the experiences of a group of young soldiers during the final months of the Soviet–Afghan War. The story's climax is loosely based on a real-life battle that took place at Hill 3234 in early 1988, during Operation Magistral, the last large-scale Soviet military operation in Afghanistan. The film received generally positive reviews…
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Afghanistan has, in contemporary popular perception, become synonymous with the “graveyard of empires.” This grim epithet stems from the failures of three successive global powers—the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and the United States—to establish lasting dominion over its rugged, fractious terrain. The Soviet Union’s bloody and debilitating intervention, widely cited as a catalyst for its ultimate collapse in…More
