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When the Soviets invaded Afghanistan - it became a ten-year war
In December 1979, the Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan expecting a swift stabilization of a friendly regime - but instead ignited one of the most consequential conflicts of the late Cold War.
The last time Abdul Karim saw Soviet forces he was a teenage mujahideen fighter shivering on an Afghan mountainside, clutching his Kalashnikov and wondering if winter or the Russians would bring death ...
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