A Soviet soldier who disappeared 33 a year ago was found alive in Afghanistan. Now he is Sheikh Abdullah

A Soviet soldier who disappeared in Afghanistan in 1980 year was found alive in the western province of Herat, where, as it turned out, he lived all this time. Thus in the list of 264 people who are missing in Afghanistan, there was one less soldier, reports RIA "News".

Born in the Uzbek city of Samarkand Bahretdin Khakimov, which is now called Sheikh Abdullah, was found thanks to the efforts of Soldiers-Internationalists Affairs Committee of the Council of Heads of Governments of the CIS countries, which has been operating since the year 1992. Among his other tasks is the search for Soviet soldiers who disappeared during the war in Afghanistan in 1979-1989. Searches were conducted in the province of Herat during the year and meetings scheduled with him were disrupted three times, until February 23 local residents brought Khakimov to a meeting with the Deputy Chairman of the Committee Alexander Lavrentiev.

"He served in 101-th motorized infantry regiment, which was stationed near Herat city. In September 1980 in a battle was seriously wounded, he picked up the locals, and then went out and took care of an elder who treats herbs. The same is now engaged himself Sheikh Abdullah ", - quotes RIA" Novosti "Lavrentiev.

Khakimov was married, but his wife died, leaving no children. Now the former soldier leads a semi-nomadic way of life, he has no documents and he hardly understands Russian. However, according to Khakimov, he would very much like to meet with relatives if they wish. The former soldier also identified from photographs of other missing Soviet soldiers, with whom he even met in Afghanistan, which gives hope: they will also be found.

Of the 264 soldiers reported missing in Afghanistan, half are Russian citizens. The committee managed to find 29 ex-military alive, 22 of them returned to their homeland, and seven chose to remain in Afghanistan. The remains of 15 war graves were exhumed. According to the results of the examination, five Soviet soldiers were identified among the remains in Russia.

Comments

[Clueless]

the film must be shot on such events

[golo-yurij]

We have no money for this, and Mikhalkov will ask and find.

[papas-57]

Mikhalkov cannot be filmed. He will again `` put '' all Russian actors when filming battle scenes

[crazyrom]

A man gives in, he disappeared, became a sheikh, forgot how to speak Russian!

[dropout]

Quote: crazyrom

, forgot how to speak Russian!

When he went to the army in Russian, he did not have time to learn. So he did not have to unlearn it.

[Curculum]

Quote: dropout

When he went to the army in Russian, he did not have time to learn. So he did not have to unlearn it.

The main thing is - at the mov Cormorant, therefore, remained alive. To whom or to what glory is there? (Russian word)

[OTAKE]

dude, laugh like you flush yourself every day in the toilet.

[fishermanfriend]

Uzbek and Farsi are different languages

[ochakow703]

But with Russian they are even more different. We had boys from both Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, in the second year they began to indiscriminately claw. And the guy was surely enough at first ...

[saygon66]

At 87, a guy from our entrance, an Uzbek, returned from Afgan. Was awarded a Red Star. Once in a conversation he said: "I fought against my brothers in Afghanistan. I will never forget and never forgive this." I wonder how his fate was ...

[domokl]

Quote: saygon66

"I fought against my brothers in Afghanistan. I will never forget and never forgive this." I wonder how his fate was ...

Indeed, if he served in Kunduz, Puli Khumri, and indeed in the north, fought against ethnic Uzbeks ...

[120352]

Uzbek and Farsi languages ​​are different, but in Afghanistan they are state.

[domokl]

Quote: fishermanfrend

Uzbek and Farsi are different languages

Akhmat Shah, who controls almost the entire north of Afghanistan by ethnicity ... Afghanistan generally belongs to the Uzbek clans to the north, to Tajiks to the north-east (to Kabul itself) So the soldier did not have special problems with language ...

[Mujahiddin777]

Nothing like this! Ahmadhash Masoud was a Tajik, but Juma Namangoni is an Uzbek ...

[Curculum]

Quote: crazyrom

A man gives in, he disappeared, became a sheikh, forgot how to speak Russian!

“If you want to live, you’ll get distracted,” is a familiar phrase? Some use it, others laugh at it - is there a difference? Let everyone answer ...

[воронов]

But he didn’t know how to speak Russian well.Do not forget that a large number of Uzbeks, Tajiks have long lived in Afghanistan, there are Kyrgyz, one of the Mujahideen leaders stationed in the Panjshir Gorge was Ahmad Shah Masud, an ethnic Uzbek, so our Soviet an Uzbek soldier, and even a Muslim, it was not at all difficult to fit into the local flavor, he probably got to his fellow tribesmen and they left him. Only after recovery didn’t really want the soldier to return to duty and drive away his military duty, he preferred to sit out, although he probably had such an opportunity, I don’t see anything heroic in this warrior, but I must still give him his due, he didn’t surrender voluntarily, did not desert, but was seriously injured, although who knows how it really was there.

[saygon66]

I am amending - Ahmadshah Massoud Tajik. The leader of the Afghan Uzbeks (until recently) was Abdurashid Dostum.

[domokl]

Quote: saygon66

- Ahmadshah Massoud Taji

Alas, the amendment is not correct ... Voronov is right ... Masoud is an Uzbek ... Tajiks live south and east ...

[saygon66]

Fergana news.com In memory of Ahmadshah Massoud. nEWS RU. COM ISLAMDAG, RU AGENTURA, RU

[qwertynsan]

If he lived in Samarkand, then he could not speak Russian. For the simple reason that at that time EVERYONE was speaking Russian there. And so he knew Uzbek and a little Farsi. I think he just did not have practice for so many years then! Here you forget your native speech))

[Cadet787]

To know such a fate ....

[dmitrich]

Sheikh is the name.

[domokl]

Quote: Dmitry

Sheikh is the name.

Sheikh is one of the leaders of the clan ... As I understand it, the old sheikh adopted him and that means he automatically became the leader ... All the children of a Sheikh receive the title of Sheikh, although only the elders receive real power ...

[Tersky]

Quote: papas-57

Mikhalkov can’t be removed. He is again all Russian actors `` put ''

To be more precise, the actors and the story ....

[Geisenberg]

Not asking

[DRY]

Nooo "WE HAVE MONEY, WE DO NOT HAVE "

[sancho]

Here! Here! Mikhalkov! To Afghanistan! And remove "Burnt by the Sun-4"

[Deniska999]

Wow, what fate throws a feint ... A man has taken root in Afghanistan, well, thank God.

[воронов]

For Uzbeks and Tajiks, Afghanistan is not such a distant exotic, there are a large number of them living there for centuries, plus everything they are all Muslims there.

[domokl]

Quote: voronov

For Uzbeks and Tajiks Afghanistan is not so far exotic

We had a Tajik officer .. From Dushamba ... He told me that he constantly went with his grandfather and father to Navruz to visit relatives near Kabul before the war ... And we somehow stopped by them .. True relatives, did not lie ...

[maestro123]

There are movies

[in reserve]

Who has not seen, but I doubt something that there are such. Here is a movie I recommend The documentary "The Secret of Badaber Camp"

[120352]

A film for naive and nervous preschoolers ...

[saygon66]

There is such a film. A documentary about the fate of our soldiers captured in Afghanistan. I remember that they showed a fighter from Moldova who became a teacher in the village and a guy who became a bodyguard Ahmadshah Massouda. The latter returned to Russia, it seems to Ryazan.

[Black Colonel]

I read a report about the bodyguard in "Komsomolskaya Pravda" somewhere in the mid-90s, when "Komsa" was still a normal newspaper. An interesting little article.

[Renat]

How many people, so many fates. Each has its own place in this world.

[tm70-71]

The war will end when the last soldier is found.

[Renat]

The war cannot be considered over until the last soldier is buried. (A.V. Suvorov).

[120352]

It turns out that not one of the wars ever held on Earth has ended.

[rapid1934]

It’s good that such work is ongoing. Respect to those who do this.

[Dimitr]

Well done boys! Once again I am convinced that no one is forgotten, nothing is forgotten!

[Maj.]

They are forgotten by our state, the search is conducted by "volunteers" ...

[Yapatriot]

poor Sheikh, relatives will not even want to talk to him at home, he is a traitor

[tm70-71]

And what to call you?

[Andrew-001]

What kind of traitor he is - he was taken prisoner seriously wounded - it was a miracle that he survived, he did not fight on the side of the dushmans against the Soviet troops - what is his "betrayal" ?!
And it’s good that it was found, there should be no missing persons.

[AK-47]

Quote: Andrew-001

And it's good that I found ...

There would be more of them, thanks to the committee on the affairs of soldiers-internationalists.

[воронов]

But he didn’t need to be searched by the committee on international warrior affairs. By the way, your nickname shows AK-47, is that a machine gun? But such an automaton, with a similar abbreviation, never existed.

[воронов]

Are you absolutely sure that he was captured seriously wounded and did not fight against the Soviet troops? Only now the question arises, and under what conditions the spirits of the Soviet soldier captured in the battle (not a deserter, but a wounded one, that is, resisting them with weapons in their hands) were left alive and made it possible to continue in general comfortable (according to local concepts) existence, yet the Sheikh there is not an ordinary person?

[101]

And who then those who lost a wounded soldier? You should not look at everything from one point. You see how quickly you can find another.

[Kaetani]

Only a seriously wounded soldier who has been captured can say a rebuke to him.
And no one else.

It’s easy to reproach - to step over and accomplish a feat is difficult.

[воронов]

Do you think that this soldier accomplished a feat, then in what exactly is he expressed?

[Kaetani]

In my words there is no word about the feat of this soldier.
Although in general - yes, to fulfill his duty in battle - this is a feat

He did not kill children and women - as befits a man - he fought with men - so he is worthy of respect

[tm70-71]

He survived is the main thing

[marinist]

When will the day when all the missing are found ...

[воронов]

Never because it's a war

[galiullinrasim]

not everything is so straightforward why the traitor was immediately told-it was wounded. it’s good that it’s alive. the warrior thing is dirty and it’s not doing such fortunes with a person

[Guun]

The Taliban did not always execute Soviet soldiers captured, it happened that the wounded were taken care of and released as was the case with my uncle, offered to stay, I would choose a wife among the girls, said that at home the wife was waiting with two sons - he spoke with warmth about those who were leaving him. He says that even in the bloody war there are people who retain their human appearance and this is important. There are enough such cases, and can you really call them traitors, would you kill those who came out and put the wounds on you? That would be a betrayal.

[воронов]

Do not tell tales, Soviet Muslim soldiers were not always executed, and Russian-speaking people, if they were left alive, only subject to the acceptance of Islam

[Guun]

In general, there is no compulsory adoption of Islam; there is a high probability that the compelled can easily betray this unspeakably and is therefore not forced. A Tajik uncle who grew up in Samarkand and spoke Russian well because his wife is Russian. He doesn’t talk about that war, but he talks about those who went out.

[saygon66]

The Taliban first emerged in 1994!

[Guun]

The Taliban will be more correct Toliban - from an Arab student, during the war of the USSR, all who came to the side of the Mujahideen were students from the Middle East. Yes, the movement appeared when the civil war broke out, but the Taliban as such already fought. In the USSR they called the Mujahideen, in the United States the Taliban, but essentially the same thing.

[andsavichev2012]

The scenario is quite probable, the Soviet Uzbek was captured by the Uzbeks there, he could hardly become a sheikh, rather, the journalists lied.

[wax]

He learned to treat with herbs, so in his village he became a respected person, that is, like an elder, elder = sheikh.

[APASUS]

This state sent its citizens to war and it is obliged to return them!
Dead or alive, they must be at home !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[воронов]

For many Uzbeks and Tajiks, Afghanistan is their home, they live there for centuries

[APASUS]

Quote: voronov

For many Uzbeks and Tajiks, Afghanistan is their home, they live there for centuries

Quite controversial statement. Uzbeks live only in the north of Afghanistan and that is not so much as you think

Here's what Wiki writes about it.
Afghanistan is a multinational state. Its population consists of various ethnic groups belonging to different language families - Iranian, Turkic and others.
Pashtuns are the largest ethnic group, their number varies, according to various estimates, from 39,4 to 42% of the population.
Tajiks [1] (farsians) - the second largest group - from 27 to 38%.
The Hazaras are the third group, people of Mongolian origin - from 8 to 10%.
Uzbeks - the fourth largest ethnic group - Turkic-speaking - ranges from 6 to 9%.
Less numerous ethnic groups - aimaks, Turkmens, Baluchis make up 1-4,3%, 1-3% and 0,5-2%, respectively.
Other ethnic groups account for 1 to 4%.

[120352]

A year after the withdrawal of troops that state did not.

[nemec55]

Yes, sadly, the whole life passed by the guys in the villages. As if stuck in a war. Imagine living and walking where you served with the guys, seeing abandoned equipment somewhere
the military towns were clearly abandoned, to look at it all and understand that everyone left and you stayed ..........

[Guun]

Do you know the map of Central Asia? Looks like no, the Western mind does not know where Afghanistan is. The border of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan is nearby, I would like to cross it, and even more so in 90-00. My uncle then returned to Samarkand to his family and nothing, everyone was glad that he was back on two legs and with two hands, but one eye is sad.

[воронов]

Many Uzbeks and Tajiks lived in kishlaks in the Union, so everything was familiar for this Uzbek soldier in Afghanistan, all the more so since he was sure to get to his local Uzbeks once he was alive, and nostalgic nagging is already the result of your imagination.

[120352]

That's for sure! Kishlaks, they are in Afghanistan, in Uzbekistan, in Tajikistan - for one person. The guy, probably, didn’t see the difference much, therefore he didn’t leave for Uzbekistan.

[Black]

Well .... another soldier returned from the war ... but where? ...

[воронов]

What makes you think that he came back? He hasn’t returned anywhere. Sheikh is not bad in Afghanistan either.

[120352]

However, as follows from the text, the sheikh is a sheikh, but he is just a beggar and a homeless person.

[nemec55]

Well, yes, I who live in Kazakhstan and live in Omsk, how can a European know the map. And you think about the other soldiers who were captured and not at the resort. In Chechnya, too, there were some guys in captivity who are still sitting today.

[Byordovvv1]

Such is the fate. I would go to my homeland, everyone will accept.

[treskoed]

Or maybe he saw more warmth and participation in Afghanistan than at home?

[Slavs]

It seems to me a terrible fate, to be taken prisoner in a foreign land and "run wild" to such an extent that there is no desire to return home .... And even to accept someone else's faith ... And you cannot condemn .... Until he himself survived ... God forbid...

[120352]

Uzbekistan and Afghanistan are almost the same thing. Who has been, knows. And everyone knows that the Uzbeks and Afghans of all varieties are Muslims, so he did not have to change his faith. Although, if he was a member of the CPSU, then another matter. It was there that they were primarily accepted there.

[Slavs]

"The committee managed to find 29 former military personnel alive, 22 of them returned to their homeland, and seven chose to stay in Afghanistan."
I do not think that only Uzbeks were captured ....

[pinecone]

It is possible that in Afghanistan there are still people with the same fate. There were deserters, some of whom ended up in other countries, including the United States. A lot of things happen in war.

[s1н7т]

"Of the 264 soldiers listed as missing in Afghanistan, half are citizens of the Russian Federation."
For this minus the article right away.
Homeland sent to the war, and not the Russian Federation. All are ours.