Posted on 10/06/2015 6:59:21 AM PDT by Trumpinator
Well, in reality, the Russian backed regime lasted a few years after the Soviets left. So the Mujahadeen did not win. Then the Taliban came about and pretty much took over the warlord territories in the Pushtan areas of Afghanistan and took Kabul. The northern part of Afghanistan never fell to the Taliban and became the Northern Alliance which was funded in part by the Russians, Chinese, Iranians (there is a small Shia Persian ethnic presence there) and Indians (as an FU to Pakistan).
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