Frontline

Season 4, Episode 29

Episode Title: Comrades X: Soldier Boy

Air Date: 1986-08-26

Overview:

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.