Comrades X: Soldier Boy

August 26, 1986

Season 1986: Episode 10

For the first time on Western television, Frontline details a recruit’s life inside a Soviet Army barracks. Frontline cameras follow Valera Krylov, 18, through the exertion and boredom of basic training in the military and focuses on his parents, who worry that in the next two years he may be fighting in Afghanistan.

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