The Kremlin warned that American support for Ukraine could turn into a decade-long folly, urging the U.S. to not oppose its invasion of the country as Congress appears set to pass a $60 billion aid…
    • Justas🇱🇹English
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      7 months ago

      Here’s what stories I remember from USSR-Afghanistan war, told by actual veterans:

      They would punish extremist acts by throwing women and children out of a helicopter, Pinochet style. The person who told me that drank ever since he got back from the war and never stopped.

      There was one man who left his tent for a midnight leak and came back to his entire tent with their throats slit. Had insane PTSD.

      My father-in-law got his legs messed up by machine gun fire, got airlifted to East Germany to get put back together, doesn’t talk much, but still drinks a lot.

    • lingh0eEnglish
      1·
      7 months ago

      You could say it was their Vietnam.

    • AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1473·
      7 months ago

      You mean the one where the USA gave a fuckload of material and immaterial aid as much as they could to any radical extremist willing to hold an AK47?

      Yeah, I’m going to put the USSR firmly in the “Right side of history” looking back at USA’s shit

      It’s a very weird thing for the USA to be proud of