• Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works
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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.

    • GreenTacklebox@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      The usa getting involved in Afghanistan is nothing to be proud of. Many War crimes have been committed there by us.