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Viktor Khabarov, a major in the Soviet military, worked among the troops as a photographer.
via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2019/02/14/everyone-was-leaving-and-we-were-trying-to-get-back-in-a-photographer-remembers-the-end-soviet-afghan-war/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.98d98bc6c3f9
Viktor Khabarov, 67, was a major in the Soviet military, working among the troops as a photographer. While the Kremlin made lofty decisions about the conflict from Moscow, he saw it close up, on the ground. From 1986 to 1989, he hopped in and out of Afghanistan on assignment for Red Star, the Soviet (and now Russian) military newspaper.