Though the Soviet Union departed Afghanistan 25 years ago, its decade-long presence left the country’s capital, Kabul, with an abundance of yellow Soviet-made Volga cabs, a spate of new industrial enterprises, and an increase in the number of medical clinics, academic institutions, and urban transportation infrastructure. One of those legacies will surely be architectural.
The last Soviet forces leave Afghanistan via Friendship Bridge in February of 1989.Īs the United States haltingly finishes up its long presence in Afghanistan, there is much to learn from the Soviet experience about the type of legacy that the U.S. The Soviet leadership’s initial plan for a short intervention lasting six months turned into a long and bitter engagement because in the context of the Cold War, losing Afghanistan, in the words of the Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko, would mean a “sharp setback to our foreign policy.” After almost a decade of occupation, in February 1989-twenty-five years ago-the Soviet Union completed withdrawal of its combat forces across the Friendship Bridge from the Afghan city of Hairatan into Termez, Uzbekistan. However, we do want to make it very clear that Robert Sanchez is in no way, shape, or form involved in the running of IESB.In late December 1979-thirty-five years ago this month-the Soviet army entered Afghanistan to stabilize the pro-Soviet Afghan government and offer support in its fight with rebel forces. "Out of respect for the children and family involved, IESB’s new management team is not going to comment on the difficult and deeply private matters that they face. In a statement at its relaunch, made it clear that it was distancing itself from its founder: Harrison is based in Rancho Cucamonga, near the Sanchez's last known address, and told TheWrap that he had been looking for a way to carry on without Sanchez' involvement. He told TheWrap on Saturday that he'd only talked to Sanchez on the phone a few times, and that neither he nor anyone he knew had heard from Sanchez in the past weeks.īehind the regeneration of is JR Harrison, a former movie reviewer for the site who says he is buying it from Stephanie Sanchez, and that the two are working out details of the handover. began posting new material as Comic-Con began, most of it dispatches from Gig Patta, a freelance contributor who had written for the site during the Sanchez years.
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