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Weekly "what are you reading" Thread #84 :marseyreading:

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To discuss your weekly readings of books, textbooks, and papers.

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@Aevann can you :marseypin2: pls

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I'm reading "Petersburg" as part of the book club but also finished "Afgantsy".

@Cantor_Dust I highly recommend Afgantsy to you, is not a dry military textbook but rather covers the regular life of the military and civilian Soviet staff during the occupation and it's political aspects.

At some point Soviet soldiers were trading AK-47 cartridges (sabotaged of course) in exchange for levy's jeans and other western consoomer goods they could find in the afghan bazaars and then sell it in the USSR's black market. There's also a chapter named "The Nationbuilders", the Soviets forcefully recruited language students from the universities as translators, and brought Komsomol officials to help indoctrinate the Afghan youth (with little to no success). There's a chapter covering Soviet foids who ranged from doctors and nurses to secretaries who according to soldiers where there to find a husband (in one of the interviews a Russian foid said "I'm 32 and I'm lonely, so yes what's wrong if that's why I came here for").

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How does it compare to Zinky Boys?

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I don't know, this is the first book on the Soviet-Afghan war I've read.

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@TR lembrei que você tinha recomendado a Editora 34, faz pouco comprei essa edição deles do "Irmãos Karamazov"

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trading AK-47 cartridges (sabotaged of course) in exchange for levy's jeans and other western consoomer goods

That stuff always happens if you've got a war like that where everyone is stuck in the same place. In Vietnam the US had guys stealing flour to sell on the black market.

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Yes, but the burger soldiers weren't selling it to a black market in the United States. The Russians sent western products back to home in secret to sell it in the Soviet Black market. This was considered an economic crime of the biggest severity (people were executed when caught smuggling in large numbers) but the soldier's operations were too small so the authorities turned a blind eye (I guess it was an out of the books reward too), plus things got laxer at home when the Perestroika came.

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Thank you! I will definitely pick it up then

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