Posted by: tungsten
Posted by: chupacabra
Posted by: tungsten
Posted by: syncro
There is no one on this side of the Atlantic who thinks the USSR was justified in invading Afghanistan.
Of course not, they're all inculcates of a coroprate media, owned by the friendly people who make the bombs who've trained them to think war is peace. The reality of that tragedy is rather the fault of the rubes "on this side of the Atlantic".
We get it. You are a communist, but holy shit. How did this moron manage to write an article implying that the USSR ran a humanitarian mission in Afghanistan? It was a proxy war to be sure, but up to 2 million people were killed and the Soviets did a shitload of that killing. Was it OK because the enemy was CIA backed? The PDPA were hardly saints like he wants to portray either. They killed thousands after the coup.
But that is OK with you if it supports the communist cause? You have some seriously weird convictions.
You can wrongheadedly infer that if you want, but it's a bit hypocritical given that your people came up with R2P.
Make no mistake, the Soviets went into Afghan to make war. At the behest of the legitimate govt. Unlike the US who invaded and caused untold deaths simply because they wanted a prescence where they wanted a pipeline. Oh and a few military bases to surround the evil doer Russkies. Hegemony, eh?
You replied to someone saying the USSR was not justified to in invading by blaming the tragedy on Amerika... again. How else should that have been inferred? The USSR was happy to fight on behalf of communism. The article you posted made it sound like the communists in Afghanistan were doing nothing but good for the people but they killing thousands of people and were very unpopular in much of the country since they are hard core Muslims and didn't want social reform. The USSR was certainly the main villain in that story.