Soviet Music to make you feel like you're in Afghanistan 

I don’t understand why people in the comments have to make things Political. How does a music playlist get compared to the war in Ukraine? Because it’s Russian music? It makes no sense. This has nothing to do with the war in Ukraine. I’m tired of seeing cringe comments. Go on, argue with me. Try and fill your own egotistical views upon me. You’ll only prove that you’re an edgy kid. I ain’t gonna argue back so it’ll be interesting to see the comments that I get back. If I had gotten asked on what side I choose in the War in Ukraine? Neither. I don’t care about the war because it doesn’t have to do anything with me. I don’t like seeing people hurt for no reason because it’s unnecessary. I have friends from both Ukraine and Russia and they are chill with each other so why can’t you?

my Uncle was drafted to Afghanistan during the 80s in the Russian-Ukrainian 40th Army in their tank division and he lost many friends there, he survived the war and he had bad ptsd and survivors guilt, he was a caring and gentle man, he sadly killed himself when his girlfriend passed away from cancer but i still have his tank helmet and it gives me chills when i look at it and think it was my uncle's, i love you uncle i hope you found peace with yourself and i love you

Love em or hate em, you cant lie that Soviet music slaps.

The flying tank, the perfect machine to carry soldiers And the perfect machine for soldiers to carry in their memory

The first song is about a Soviet soldier wounded in Afghanistan , who has run out of ammunition , has no hope of salvation and is surrounded by enemies . In order not to be captured, he blows himself up with a grenade ..

Kino really was the voice of a generation weren't they?

My dad who is Lithuanian was drafted into the soviet army and then sent to Afghanistan (1985-1987). He was a paratrooper (VDV). His task in the war was mainly to watch over the roads and keep them safe so that convoys could pass. He told me many scary, sad, and funny stories. It would be a long essay if I wanted to share everything about his experience there so I just want to thank you for these songs which bring me to his era and for him, tears.

This music is dope, but especially 15:54 this passage gives me chills "Davai za Sibir" - my best friend in 8th grade, Sergei, was from Omsk. He was the first Russian I met in life and he told me of the life in Russia, the cold, the wind, the friends and how different the society was. I wonder how he´s doing today. "Davai za Kavkaz" - I was on business in the Caucasus and lost my heart there. Can´t forget her, even after a decade. two people, long gone from my life - struck back into my mind by one sentence

Dunno about being in Afghanistan but this makes me feel like smoking a cigarette and staring bleakly at the nothing.

My Grandpa was a Polish truck driver in this war, carrying troops to frontline. He is still alive. Hello from Poland. (He drove the Polish manufactured "FCS Star.")

My granddad was a radio engineer. He went to Afghan as a civillian worker to establish communications, in the first year when the war started. He died in 2016 when he was 77 years old.

I remember coming across a double LP of Soviet rock groups at Tower records in the mid 1980s. Kino were my favorite, and I tried my best to get all their albums. During Desert Storm I ran into a guy from Leningrad who was in the French Foreign Legion serving as part of Division Daguet. He had a collection of their tapes, so we sat around for a few hours listening to Kino and eating French field rations...good memories.

Мой папа говорит по-русски, только он мексиканец, он по-изучал в старый СССР в Москве. Я тоже изучаю русский. Мне много нравится Россия.

I am a mexican dude, and I do not have any russian language knowledge, and maybe my english is still not the best. But the raw intensity this songs are universal. Dread, Happiness, Sadness, Hate. Nostalgia. I love Soviet Era Music so, but so much.

До сих пор помню две мемориальные доски на стене своей школы - выпускники, кто не вернулся из Афгана, один майор, другой - рядовой, совсем молодой пацан. Царствия им Небесного!

as an afghan, i can confirm this is what we heard in the skies back in those days.

My uncle from my fathers side and my grandfather from my mothers side both served in Afghanistan in the 40th army, we are Moldovan so Afghanistan is kind of a big deal here ( at least in my village and family) my uncle, every year hosts an event where they go to every grave in the region of Singerei and honors the fallen in Afghanistan. I should note they are both alive and doing very well.

Listening to this rock makes me understand we weren't so different as we thought.

Even if you can only understand a few words here and there, you can still feel the emotion of these songs. They're all timeless. They're songs that could apply to any war from any era.

I just found this style of music and I like it, thanks.

I’m just some 15 year old American who discovered this video and this led me down a rabbit hole of exploring Russian music I love Kino and I feel privileged to know and understand the meaning behind theses songs. It’s extremely interesting and unique I love it.

I served in Afghanistan in 2012 and 2014. During my first tour, I saw a display in khost province that had several soviet medals. One of them was definitely off a dead soviet soldier. Myself and my squad leader "tactically acquired" those medals and I brought them home. Gave them to my inlaws who lived in the soviet union.

My grandfather was a Spetsnaz officer approaching the final days of a decades long career before transferring to intelligence. He had many medals from Afghanistan, mainly from the puppet govt as he was heavily involved in advisory positions however had combat and apparently killed. He’s never acted differently over it or about it, and despite being a fiercely patriotic Ukrainian who right now supports NATO and who was part of a civilian force defending Kyiv at the start of the war right now, he’s still proud of his days in the Red Army. He regretted leaving behind his uniform and medals but he was not safe in Ukraine so he moved in with family in the Netherlands. As a side note, he’s able to speak Ukrainian, Russian, Czech, Arabic, Farsi and Pashto because of his deployments and is learning English. He’s in his early 70s and quite the character. Always sparks interest where I live by those into the topic when I say “My grandfather served in Afghan” and tell them about the Soviet war and not Op Herrick and usually expected.

"Кино" (KINO) - самая популярная группа СССР. Нынешние дети до сих пор вдохновляются ею. Удивительно

My Uncle was Afghanistan in the 80s & I don’t know how much of fighting he did since he never talked about it, he would tell us how he would sleep on big rocks in the desert and how worried his whole family was for him. He has since passed in 2022, Rest In Peace Uncle Misha.

I can understand most of these songs as the son of immigrants and I feel like I have more in common with Soviet Afghan vertarans than my fellow Americans. I deployed to Afghanistan twice and wish I never did. What a waste of good Americans and Afghans, I'll never forget them.

Привет товарищи!! С уважением от Мексика.

Idk why the algorithm recommend this to me but I like it

Spokoinaya Noch Literally the perfect song im looking for. Great taste man

I like how Legenda ends like a fading heartbeat... Truly a masterpiece. Kino is so damn good.

Music by Russians is not about glory or Soviet imperialism it’s about soldiers their comrades and the sadness of war. Maybe some really good music will come from Russia next year

Вечная память всем героям, не вернувшимся домой к родным😔🙏

Спасибо. Я 1980 . КУНДУЗ -- КАБУЛ. ЖИВЁМ ЗА РЕБЯТ КОТОРЫХ УЖЕ НЕТ. СЛАВА ИМ.

Adaptation of song titles into English 0:00 - Swallowing dust 5:29 - Kino - Change! 10:22 - Hello sister 13:32 - Lyube - Come on! 17:42 - Kino- Blood type 21:39 - Farewell to the mountains 24:56 - Kino- Good night 31:03 - Kino- Close the door behind me 34:41 - Yuri Kirsanov - Helicopters are circling over the mountains 37:30 - Kandahar 40:48 - We're leaving 43:53 - Kino- summer 49:48 - Kino- Cuckoo 56:15 - Kino- Legend

Kino sounds like Russian version of the Smiths. Love it.

Kino is one of those bands that were not only a voice of a generation, but felt how many felt at that time about where the country was going. Their songs are different from any western group and to me they don't sound like the Smiths butthey sound like their own unique style who were definitely influenced by western rock for sure. They were truly one of the greatest bands to come out of the Soviet Union.

Man, I love the MI-24, I liked since I was a kid

Слава и всем погибшим в Афгане, любим и ценим, помним ...Шурави!!!

the most iconic afghan war picture that MI-24D flying over the afghan mountains...

Davai Za hit me like a ton of bricks. been over a decade since I heard it

Lmao honestly this playlist amazing as hell bro. I'm vietnamese and like the post-modern music era in our country was heavily influenced by the ussr, as a kid I used to listen a lot of them. This brought a lot of memories and frankly just so good. Keep it up mate.

American Vet here. I love this music and I salute Russian Vets too. We may be on opposite sides of war but most of us are just fighting for our countries. We don’t make the big decisions but we are the unfortunate ones who pay with our lives. I drink one for all us Vets every where!

Kino - Spokoinaya Noch really slaps...

I love the Soviet aesthetic of the 80's, thank you for uploading this

вечная память ребятам...

I just wish that Hideo Kojima was more historically and culturally accurate when he made MGS V and put Soviet pop on the radios in the Afghanistan missions instead of Western 80's classics.

good to listen to while I'm on the hospital! its gonna be a long, long stay. thanks for the tunes!

Last year when Kabul fell it hit me like a fkn ton of bricks. I built a Playlist of Russian Afghanistan War music, Vietnam music and the music I listened to when I was there. All the time I was there I was trying to forget that I was there . Now I miss good Ole FOB Farah.

I unironicly like Kino

This is epic.

Kino is the dopest band of all time. No contest.

To anyone who has served in Afghanistan, be they American or Russian, you have my sympathy. That place is the worst kind of hell for a soldier.

Since GTA IV ive been a big Kino fan

I've stumbled upon this by complete accident. And if I'm being honest, it was one of the best accidents I've made! I really like this music

Kino is such a national treasure...

All to often the world tends to forget that Russian people are just that - people.

Conocí a Kino a mediados del 2011 siendo hispano por lo que no es muy común escuchar ese tipo de música por este hemisferio. Gruppa Krovi fue espectacular, tenía un sentimiento desde que la escuché en un juego. Desde entonces canciones como "Héroe Solitario" supondré que sería esa la traducción de Poslednii Geroi, o Cierra la puerta detrás de mí son parte de mi playlist de rock. sin contar al famoso grupo molchat domá

That First song is a Masterpiece i dont Speak Russian but if something sounds good im Going To Play it Keep up the Slav Vibes

Swallowing Dust has to be my favourite song on this playlist. Awesome work! 👍

Most of these people saying their grandpas fought in Afghanistan against the mujaheddin while my grandpa was part of the mujaheddin. He made some friends in high places including some taliban members and some warlords but luckily he isn’t in the taliban himself.

As a side note, the music in this video "farewell to the mountains" and "we are leaving" is actually the same music piece. For some time i was thinking "Hey i heard this before". This is basically an observation i noticed.

Born and raised in the SU I miss the time dearly as we used to be brothers and not enemies =,( That music drags me back to better times

i AM in Afghanistan but this music didn’t make feel like I am in Afghanistan lol.

Swallowing dust just hits different when you know tye lyrics

My uncle was drafted to Soviet army, then was sent to Afganistan and-.. He died, thats all.

I have many friends from Afghanistan. They tell me that kids still play on the old rusted Soviet tanks

"Мы уходим" эта моя любимая песня.

Это то что я не искал, но то что мне очень нужно

I… I don’t want to feel like I’m in Afghanistan. Please take me home I WANT TO LIVE

perfect for playing on squad in a desert map and flying with a heli

The difference between Vietnam war music and this is so much. There both equally good but Vietnam war music is more enthusiastic while Soviet has meaning

Reading the title and my first thought is: "Why would I want to feel like that?" These guys went through hell...

Been there, Done that P.S. Alexander the Great is buried just south of the mountian pass to the South of Mazar-E-Sharif and marked by the stacking of large stones And droves of old tanks columns and few air control towers remain

I already know all songs. :D Nice playlist bro!

You couldn't ask for a better outro than Legenda

Никогда бы не подумал, что песни группы Кино "Спокойная ночь", " Закрой за мной дверь, я ухожу " и "Лето" заставляют англоговорящих людей чувствовать себя в Афганистане...

Какой красивый Ми-24. Помню его ещё со времён сталкера. Он у меня в сердечке, и ни один вертолёт не сравнится с ним

Thank you for sharing some of my favourite songs, especially by «Kino».

My uncle was in a Russian mob and this is what He used to listen to. The bodys he buried that day paved the way for this music today.

should have more of Kaskad, Blue Berets and other acoustic guitar songs, but great playlist

Beautiful collection. Thank you.

Слава героям Воинам-интернационалистам!

man this is just such a nostalgic mix it and reminds me of my grandpa's war stories back from afganistan, man those bois were real chads

Great music, a lot of sensations. Thanks a lot for sharing this.

if I wanted to feel like a soviet in Afghanistan I'd take a roundtrip to Wyoming and sip vodka out of a gas tank edit: that doesn't sound like that bad of an idea actually

USSR WE MISS YOU

I listen music while I play call of duty as it makes me focus in. I listen to this playlist with my Russian load out and it makes me feel like I’m running through Afghanistan.

veteran balkan 91-95....hvala spasiba

I discovered this video two days ago and now I'm obsessed with Kino. For context, I'm a huge Smiths fan and I just realized Kino is basically the Russian version of the Smiths; 80's, goth, amazing guitar, vocals, and lyrics. I've been looking for a band to compete with the Smith for a while now and I know I have finally found it with Kino. Also, I was already deep into Russian lit (Dostoevsky, Gogal, Checkov) and I started learning Russian about a month ago. It feels like the universe wanted me to discover Kino. Thank you for pointing me in their direction!

I love their soulful songs about the sadness of the Afghanistan war, rip to the soldiers who lost their lives, and those left with anxiety issues.😪🥀🍂🕸⚰

Such a beautiful music, I love it and enjoying it a lot . Keep the good work man .❤

Top playlist of both russian and ukraine infantry men right now... maybe..

To those who have members of the military who were in Afghanistan, or are those family members, from a guy who you may never meet, I salute you all.

My brother was in the Afghanistan war. He came home around 1986/87. Traumatized. He died in 1988 at the age of 22. It broke my heart. My family was destroyed because of it. I like listening to Viktor Tsoi. We live in Kazakhstan. War sucks. It destroys people, destroys dreams. Mothers cry for their sons. People lose brothers, fathers... No to war!!

I always would support the Russian Invasion of AFghanistan for they knew what was at stake there. " A toast to all those Brave Warriors whom went to Afghanistan " Тост за всех солдат, воевавших в Афганистане, пусть они обретут мир, где бы они ни находились. Пусть рука Бога будет с вами. Спасибо вам за вашу службу. ( had to use a traslator )

I understand 0% of the words but 100% of the feelings

Странное чувство, я играл в Страйкболе , можно даже сказать реконструировал Афганистан. И хоть я там не был, я чувствовал, какого это.. до костей пробирает, когда представляешь, что происходило, какого это. Никому не пожелаю такого ада , даже злейшему врагу. Живите в мире, друзья. Ваши деды, или прадеды - скорее всего дети войны, а отец наверное держал в руках автомат. Цените, что вы имеете живых родителей. 4 eng. A strange feeling, I played Airsoft, one might even say reconstructed Afghanistan. And even though I was not there, I felt what it was like .. it cuts to the bone when you imagine what happened, what it is like. I don't wish this kind of hell on anyone, not even my worst enemy. Live in peace, friends. Your grandfathers or great-grandfathers are most likely the children of the war, and your father probably held a machine gun in his hands. Appreciate that you have living parents.

Great, I didn't dream of anything else but to feel like I'm in Afghanistan

This song brings back good times, me and my buds used to listen to it as we played BRM5 (yeah we nerds) Sadly we stopped hanging out. Good times, good times.

Thanks for this playlist. Amaaaaazing!