Патриотический вектор в ретроспективных оценках Афганской войны

Quaestio Rossica. 2020. Т. 8. № 2. С. 399–414.

Safranchuk I., Kazantsev A., Махмудов Р.

This article refers to memoirs of high-ranking participants and witnesses of
the war in Afghanistan (1979–1989) published in the 1990s: it singles out two
departmental interpretations of the war by military and intelligence veterans and
examines their influence on the study of the history of the war. The article takes an
unprecedented look at important transformation in interpretations at the turn of
the century. The authors provide a holistic picture which they define as a patriotic perspective and describe its elements. Also, the article demonstrates the main
peculiarity of its formation and support, i. e. the use of interpretations of current
international events to justify a positive assessment of the war in Afghanistan.
The authors conclude that the formation of the patriotic perspective diminished
the objectivity of knowledge about the war in Afghanistan and is probably going
to further impede access to it. Together with this, the patriotic perspective has
made it possible for the war veterans to complete their withdrawal from the war
as they have given up disputes about the character of the war which endured
from its start.

Keywords: Россия, Russia, афганская война, war in Afghanistan, departmental interpretations, ведомственные интерпретации