ENGL 583 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Yuri Andropov, Mikhail Gorbachev, Fim-92 Stinger
Document Summary
Despite the lack of public support the soviet managed to have a military success. September 86 americans decide that they would share a new missile with the mujahideen : the stinger missile. It gives the ability to shoot a soviet aircraft. The soviets no longer have absolute control of the air. Within a year, 270 soviet aircrafts are shot down and gives the advantages to the mujahideen. We don"t really know what happened to these stinger missiles afterwards. The soviet public hates this endless brutal war, perhaps even more so than the americans in vietnam. Soviet public can"t see the point in fighting in afghanistan : racism among the soviet society, they don"t care about what is happening in central asia. The public in the soviet union don"t have freedom of speech or free press. Gorbachev tries to negotiate a cease fire, mujahideen want all soviets out. In 1987 gorbachev announces that the soviets will go back home.