[skepsel]

From the British Medical Journal

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1122273/

See also The Atlantic Monthly on line article of 8/4/14.

The estimates for the Afghan War are 1,000,000 dead civilians, 90,000 mujahedeen fighters and 18,000 Afghan National Army dead, with 5,000,000 refugees displaced to Pakistan and another 2,000,000 internal refugees.

See also the University of California Press:

https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft7b69p12h&chunk.id=d0e5195

E-book detailing Soviet atrocities, mass killings, reprisals.

Genocide was a feature of Communist rule everywhere.

Deportations, colonization, suppression of local language and culture, deliberate famine and mass killings were used to break resistance throughout the period of Soviet power.

[billakay]

Its very easy to dehumanize people, but let's face it, the Soviet people were regular people too. Soviet soldiers were human men, many of whom were conscripted. You can be against Communism and against the government without dehumanizing the people themselves.

I've encountered Russian veterans of the Afghanistan War. They tend to have psychological issues and disturbances. A lot of people suffered a lot of pain because of Brzezinski's games.

[NorseViking]

Do you realize that the same crap is written on the US operation in Iraq? Doesn’t make any of it truth.