Vremya Novostei reminds us that 25 years ago today the Soviet Union sent troops into Afghanistan.
Although the Afghanistan campaign is generally the least controversial part of the current US-led war on terrorism - everyone agrees we should have gone there after 9/11 - the Soviet experience shows how difficult it is to impose anything, even and perhaps especially democracy (not that that's what the Soviets were trying to impose), in that country.
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