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The American military authorities has destroyed a monument to the Soviet pilots to victims in Afghanistan. The monument was in memory of pilots 378 aviation shelf of victims in 1986-1987
This is not exactly true.
The monument was discovered by US troops in 2006 with the move to Bagram. It had no pictures, no writings and the aircraft model was missing too. The structure was damaged. The locals said that when the russian troops were pulling back in 1989 they took all of that home and mined the area. The locals also mentined that the monument was not a grave - the pilots either went down with their airplanes or were sent home to be burried there.
The soldiers of the US engineering unit worked on the structure and made a model of the aircraft. Some guys spent their own time and money and wanted to fully restore the monument. This had coverage in the world press.
The Afghanees had a fit with it because they don't like russians very much and this was their soil, rented out to the US.
On the 22-nd of February 2007 the russian ambassador Kabulov visited the base and asked for the remains of the monument to be moved to the grounds of the russian embassy in Kabul, but he said "we don't have any means of arranging this".
The remains of the monument were moved to the south-east, closer to the sovier era buildings. They are basically a conrete wall and the tank fuel tanks filled with concrete as the foundation. This had to take place because the decision was made to build a new runway to the SE of the existing one and the monument was too close to the site.
The russian press picked up this story and described it as "the yanks blew up soviet pilots graves".
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The monument to the Soviet pilots is blown up. Afghanistan. Bagram. Air base.
in Russia: Soviet: Other Militaria
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