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040			_aSipr
041			_aeng
100			_aSnegirev, Vladimir
245			_aThe dead end : _bthe road to Afghanistan / _cVladimir Snegirev & Valery Samunin _h[electronic resource]
260			_a[Washington, DC] : _b[National Security Archive], _c[2012]
300			_a740 p.
500			_aSIP1211
500			_aRussian original: Virus A : how we got infected by the invasion of Afghanistan
500			_aWashington, DC, October 13, 2012 – Contrary to U.S. myths of a strategic Soviet offensive towards warm water ports on the Persian Gulf or Indian Ocean, it was "mission creep" that led the Soviet Union into its ill-fated invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, according to a new, richly documented account of early Soviet engagement in Afghanistan, published in English and in Russian today by the National Security Archive. The groundbreaking book by two Russian authors - the historian and journalist Vladimir Snegirev and the veteran of Soviet foreign intelligence Valery Samunin - appears today in English under the title The Dead End: The Road to Afghanistan, together with 21 key documents from the National Security Archive's collection of Soviet and U.S. secret files on the Soviet war in Afghanistan and seven historic photographs from the period immediately before the invasion.
651			_aUSSR _xmilitary interventions _xwar _zAfghanistan
700			_aSamunin, Valery
856			_uhttp://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB396/Full%20Text%20Virus%20A.pdf
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