In a serious battle that took place in one of the highlands during 1988. The film depicts the full story of the Russian army's recruitment and the full training they received together in the late 1980s in Afghanistan as insurgents began to gain incredible power.
So is the director's beef with the barefoot belligerent fundamentalist Afghans or the beefy bungling brass of the Soviet Union? Less likely any of the above, than a battle of the blockbusters showdown with Hollywood, as to whose got the bigger bull-ets.
