Remember Afghanistan, Comrade?

Twenty years ago, massive casualties forced Gorbachev into a troop withdrawal. The parallels with today are haunting Do you remember Afghanistan, Comrade? This was a Soviet Afghan war song of the 1980s. "Do you, comrade, remember Afghanistan? Glows of fires, Muslim cries?" I am sure British soldiers have their own songs, it?s just I don?t know them. God bless them anyhow. The (1979-1989) is something nobody in Russia likes to recall now unless they have ... Full Story »