The Afghans did not have sophisticated weapons like the Soviets did but with their faith they defeated a superpower.

The Soviet Union did not achieve victory over the West so was my information inadequate to help them to victory or did it play no particular role in their failure to achieve victory?

Unfortunately the real achievements of children on the ground became debased and devalued because Labor education secretaries sounded like Soviet commissars praising the tractor production figures when we know that those exams were not the rock-solid measures of achievement that children deserve.

Our film examines the heroism courage and prowess of the Soviet submarine force in ways never seen before.

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

If there's ever an example that military power alone cannot be successful in Afghanistan I think it was the Soviet experience.

Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev.

Look at the Afghans during the time of the Soviet invasion. They were among the poorest Muslims in the world yet they were sustained by their faith in God and God alone.