Posted on 11/01/2015 8:14:46 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
It is more than 26 years since Soviet troops pulled out of Afghanistan. But today Russia, once again, is at war outside the former Soviet Union - in Syria.
The BBC's Steve Rosenberg in Moscow met some veterans of that Soviet war to find out what lessons were learnt.
Modern Russia often claims it has learnt the lessons of Afghanistan, and that never again will it allow itself to be sucked into a long bloody war, far from its borders.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
What a stunningly ignorant article! There is no Soviet Union any more. It disappeared about 20 years ago.
When there was a Soviet Union, Afghanistan was immediately adjacent to it -— not “far from its borders”.
Learnt??
These are alternative forms of the past tense and past participle of the verb learn. Both are acceptable, but learned is often used in both British English and American English, while learnt is much more common in British English than in American English.
An obscure grammatical factoid. Always intrigued by these esoteric tidbits.
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