A bird sits on a tree next to a monument to Soviet soldiers killed in action in Afghanistan during Soviet invasion of 1979-1989 at Moscow's Poklonnaya Hill War Memorial Park on April 2, 2021. For the decade a total of 620,000 Soviet soldiers served with the forces in Afghanistan. The total irrecoverable personnel losses of the Soviet Armed Forces amounted about to 15,000. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP Photo)
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