Vienna, February 15 – Twenty years ago today, the last Soviet forces left Afghanistan, nearly a decade after Leonid Brezhnev had dispatched them there to prop up a pro-Moscow government in Kabul, an action that involved more than 600,000 Soviet soldiers and resulted in large numbers of killed and wounded both among them and among the Afghan population. And today, across the Russian Federation and in some other former Soviet republics, officials and ordinary citizens, including the surviving veterans from that long-ago conflict, took part in a variety of events to commemorate both the war itself and the Soviet government’s decision to withdraw from it. But behind these moving events, a debate is raging between those who believe the Soviet intervention led to the ...
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