Pacifist sentiments competed for attention with other problems, including the nuclear fallout from Chernobyl, food shortages, and interethnic violence in the republics. Elite regiments that had served in Afghanistan were dispatched to put down pro-independence demonstrations in Baku, Tbilisi, Riga, and Vilnius, killing hundreds of protesters.
In post-Soviet Russia, some veterans of Afghanistan became involved in private security and organized crime, which had close ties to business and politics.
Some individuals who had served in Afghanistan and Chechnya joined OMON, a special-forces division that serves as riot police at protests. This is worse than Saigon. Though sympathetic to Soviet troops—its moral touchstone is a sensitive KGB officer— Brotherhood also shows them killing civilians, making corrupt deals, and drinking despairingly as they prepare to return home to a country that will soon cease to exist. After audience members at an advance screening condemned it as unpatriotic, the film was shown only in limited release.
Russian media have viewed the American withdrawal with a mixture of Schadenfreude, commiseration, and concern over its possible destabilizing effect in the region. In the U. Yet the war was a symptom of Soviet decline, not its cause. Questioning the assumptions that drove the invasion opened up the prospect, however fleeting, of a different future.
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By terms of the treaty, all conquered territory was to be returned, and commissions were A devastating fire at the Library of Congress in Washington, D. The hotel was housing U. Two Americans were killed in the blast and 65 Americans and Vietnamese were injured.
Ambassador Maxwell Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. Comedian Bob Hope gives what he says is his last Christmas show to U. Hope was a comedian and star of stage, radio, television and over 50 feature films. Hope was one of many Hollywood stars who followed the tradition of traveling overseas to entertain On December 24, , President Calvin Coolidge touches a button and lights up the first national Christmas tree to grace the White House grounds.
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