[news] Canada, the Soviet Union & Afghanistan

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

I was born in Russia, drafted into the Soviet army at the age of eighteen and sent to Afghanistan in (the) 1980s...I identified with the Canadian soldiers at the funeral mourning the loss of their friend. Like them, I went to Afghanistan believing in “fighting terrorism” and “liberating Afghans”...My combat unit participated in “humanitarian aid”: accompanying doctors and delivering food, fuel, clothing, school and other supplies to Afghan villages...It was only later that I began to wonder: did that aid justify our aggression?

  


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