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Anatoly Khiupenen

Anatoly Khiupenen is retired, former Major General of the Russian Army. He was the commander of a DCA missile-launcher company, and responsible for the Russian technicians from 1972 to 1975 in the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam.

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“Just Once Was Enough To Get a Medal”

by Anatoly Khiupenen

8 May 2005

The Russian involvement in the war of Viet Nam is exaggerated. There was only a total of 6 000 Soviet military specialists there. Thirteen died there, out of which 3 or 4 died in combat. At the beginning, soldiers of two antiaircraft missile-launcher battalions departed to train the Vietnamese (…)