The Soviets Built the Salon Pass in the Sixties.

Dostam's forces were based just north of the salang tunnel. The contrast between his forces and sort of the rag tag groups that you saw elsewhere was quite, ah, remarkable. It was clear that this guy had gotten a lot of money from the soviets, even after they left. So not only that, they had hammers and sickls on their buck buckles,. Some of them i didn't remember that bes because it was old soviet stock. And and it was extraordinary to see that.