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PREVIEW: The Soviet Soldier who Joined the Afghan Mujahideen

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The Russians Invading Afghanistan

He was stationed at Bagram airport where he was probably basically just doing security work. He wasn't a fighter pilot obviously he was definitely working in kind of this fear of like airfield security airfield operations but he was actually told and the really interesting thing is that there were like foreign troops there not just Afghan fighters but Japanese American and British troops and aircraft are also operating in Afghanistan. When he came there it became very obvious to him that what they were doing was not necessarily his patriotic duty and that Russia was actually just trying to take control of Afghanistan. The Russians saw strategic interest in Afghanistan there are natural resources there Afghanistan is a pretty important place strategically to have control over. They violently replaced the

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