ABC Newsreel February 15th, 1989
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  • Antoine_St_Hexubeary [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    "Superpowers aren't supposed to lose"

    That's an odd thing to say less than two decades after the liberation of Saigon lmao

  • Gosplan14_the_Third [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    It's kinda interesting that the moment the USSR withdrew, the socialist government actually started getting wins, like in the Battle of Jalalabad (March-June 1989), even if the situation worsened again the year after.

    • Redcuban1959 [any]
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      2 years ago

      The DRA government was indeed very popular in the urban centers, such as Kabul and Jalalabad. The rural areas were controlled by feudal lords who, with the support of Pakistan and the US, started attacking the cities. I wonder if Russia had never cut off aid and if Dostum was not a traitor, whether the DRA could have survived into the 2000s as a social democracy.