A popular revisionits myth. The Soviet backed Afghanis stayed on in power in Kabul 10 plus years after the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan and then remained as the Northern Alliance after.
What caused the fall of the Soviet Union was not Afghanistan - but cheap oil and gas prices which deprived the USSR of hard currency via oil and gas exports.
59 posted on 05/21/2004 11:37:29 PM PDT by Destro
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A popular revisionits myth. The Soviet backed Afghanis stayed on in power in Kabul 10 plus years after the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan and then remained as the Northern Alliance after.
That would have been what 1993? LMAO.
62 posted on 05/21/2004 11:40:14 PM PDT by Texasforever
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