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Soviets Soldiers Assault Tajbeg Palace During Operation Storm 333
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As Operation Storm 333 went on, the assault shifted to securing the Tajbeg Palace. Less than have less than 50 combat-effective men remaining to fight 120 highly-motivated men protecting President Amin. Confusion reigns in the darkness until a certain tendency of the Russian special forces allows them to identity each other. Listen to The War Office Podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, or The War Office Podcast YouTube Channel for more in-depth history podcast episodes. New episodes will be released every Tuesday morning. If you enjoy the episodes, please help us grow the podcast by subscribing, liking, sharing, commenting, and listening to future releases
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The only task left is to secure the Taj
Beg Palace.
This is proving more difficult than
expected.
BGs 2 and 3 have less than 50 combat
effective men remaining, facing over 120
highly motivated men of the Afghan
presidential security detachment and
President Amin's personal bodyguards.
Both the Soviets and the presidential
guards are wearing white identification
armbands, causing confusion in the dark
as to who the enemy is.
>> The distinguishing signs on the Soviet
the special forces soldiers had got on
their arms were all grimy and invisible
in the dark. The only way they could
tell whether people were Afghan or not
was that the Russian soldiers swore
horribly the whole time. They'll
recognize one another that way.