On the Circumstances of the Decision to Deploy Troops to Afghanistan
Journal: Herald of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Year: 2022

Abstract This article examines the context in which the highest political leadership of the Soviet Union made the decision to deploy troops to Afghanistan and points out the utmost level of secrecy of the corresponding resolution adopted by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CC CPSU Politburo). The inconsistency of the drafting of this decision, “Concerning the Situation in ‘A,’” with the Politburo document drafting norms then in force, is n