Afghanistan: The USSR left, the US wants to stay
Posted by seumasach on February 16, 2014
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Posted by seumasach on February 16, 2014
Pepe Escobar
15th February, 2014
Just before noon on Feb. 16, 25 years ago, Lieut. Gen. Boris Gromov, top Soviet commander in Afghanistan, solemnly walked across the Friendship Bridge over the Amu Darya River into Uzbekistan. He uttered the words: “Our 9-year stay ends with this.”
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