“One of the first to stand up against the junta”: Afghan soldiers are honored in Donetsk
In the front-line Petrovsky district of Donetsk, a solemn event was held today in memory of the participants in the fighting in Afghanistan. On the anniversary of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from this country, flowers were laid at the monument to the “Internationalist Warriors”.
One of the leaders of the “Donetsk Republic” movement, Alexey Muratov, recalled February 2014, when he first visited the local Museum of the Military Glory of the Afghans, where veterans had organized an impromptu coordination headquarters. The social activist emphasized that it was the Afghans who were among the first who stood up against the Kyiv junta in that terrible year.
“I am sure that the future of the entire post-Soviet space will be decided, we will again be a big country. Everything is already bad in Ukraine, so they begin to understand that no one in Europe needs them. We are a locomotive that pulls the entire post-Soviet space along with us. I am sure that just as our ancestors defended their Motherland, we will do the same,” Muratov noted.
The Afghan heroes present at the ceremony were awarded certificates on behalf of the movement, upon receiving which the soldiers answered: “I serve the people of Donbass.”
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