Afgahni Healer is Really a missing Soviet War Vet

In the western province of Herat, Afghanistan. Sheikh Abdullah is a local healer and herbal practitioner. But due to the efforts of Russia’s Veterans Committee and after a year long search they have found the missing veteran Bakhretdin Khakimov. Who vanished 33 years before hand.

Sheikh Abdullah whose born name is Bakhretdin Khakimov, was rescued by Afghans after being wounded in the first months right after the Soviet Union’s invasion in 1979.

A native of the former Soviet state of Uzbekistan, he now goes by the name of Sheikh Abdullah and has adopted the local dress and profession of the healer who nursed him back to health. The deputy head of the Afghan war veterans’ committee said, Abdullah (Khakimov), mostly had forgotten the Russian language and never tried to contact his relatives after suffering severe head trauma in the fighting.

According to a Huffington Post translation of Russian-language news service RIA Novosti, the missing Soviet soldier, Bakhretdin Khakimov, lived a semi-nomadic life in Afghanistan during the three decades after he was wounded in battle. Adopting the name Sheikh Abdullah.

Alexander Lavrentyev, who met with Abdullah in Herat last month, said the veteran, who was 20 when he went missing, still bore the scars of his injury: a nervous tic and a shaking hand and shoulder.

“He was just happy he survived,” Lavrentyev was quoted by Ria as saying at a press conference in Moscow on Monday.

Russias Veterans committee says it has found 29 of 264 soldiers still listed as missing. After a bloody 10 year war. They said seven of those it contacted chose to remain in Afghanistan.

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