dereformizator

Dear Mr. Hanks!

You can find it to be a surprise to receive such kind of message from me. But it is also a surprise for me to address you. Still I can't stay silent.

My name is Pavel Kurakin, I live in Russia, I am 40 and I am an applied mathematician. I used to think I am a fan of your movies. But some days ago I have seen your movie of 2007, "Charlie Wilson's War".

I thought a lot, how to formulate so as to get you thinking hard at the problem I want to point to you, instead of getting you just annoyed... Still, I think it is your choice to do one of these, not mine.

You know, when I was a schoolboy, I have seen in Soviet papers photoes of "toys" stuffed with explosive, found in Afghanistan by Soviet soldiers. And now I see that these were Soviet troops who made this dirty facsist meanness...

I do have some evidence from the press that these facsist "toys" were West - made, but I don't want to overload you with such details. I don't want you to think I provide you one more propaganda. Also, this evidence can be disputable.

Instead, I want to show you some broad picture. Just in two topics.

First. Did you ever think, WHAT kind of war did Soviet Army do in Afghanistan? In 1976 there was a communist revolution in Afghanistan, and Afghan leaders asked the USSR government for Soviet Army to enter their country. Brezhnev refused. But the situation in Afghanistan was becoming more and more instable. Afghanistan was a bordered neighbour of the USSR! And finally, super - extremist islamic revolution occurs in Iran. And at this moment Brezhnev decided to enter Afghanistan. Just to provide ANY so - so stable regime in that country.

I wonder, do many Americans understand, that USSR did exactly what US Army does now - protect all the West Civilization (USSR was a pert of it, in fact, as compared to Islamic world) from Islamic extremism?

Sorry, but I am almost sure that you don't know, that the Soviet Union helped Afghans to build ~60 large industrial, educational, infrastructural, health and transportation objects in Afghanistan. Including the Cabul Airport the US Army is using right now.

So - the "war" the Soviet Army did was to protect industrial cargoes from USSR on Afghan roads. Did you know this?

Second. Did you know that in 1962 Algeriа government asked many European governments to make extensive mine cleaning of their territory? ALL West countries refused OR assigned huge price for this. Where from were the mines? From former French occupation. The only country which agreed to make this HUGE job FOR FREE, was the Soviet Union. And, the Soviet Army did this job.

The job was: 1200 km along Algeria - Tunis border, and ~ 800-900 km along Algeria - Maroc border. Each kilometer had ~ 20,000 of French mines.

If you have a friend who knows Russian, ask him to translate this to you:

http://bg-znanie.ru/article.php?nid=20445

So, my question is, can you really imagine that the Soviet Union changed so radically its opinion on mines for Asian people from 1962 to 1979?

It's your choice to make your own resume. Thak you for reading this.