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Mikhail Gorbachev has died

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970 points homarp | 3 comments | 30 Aug 22 20:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source
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wawjgreen ◴[31 Aug 22 02:05 UTC] No.32657522[source]▶
good riddance. he was an uneducated idiot, who is indirectly responsible for the millions that were killed in Afghanistan, in 1992.

In 1989, when he pulled the red army out of Afghanistan--he also cut all aid to the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. the then-president of DRA went to Moscow to persuade Garbageoff to not to do so, predicting that the terrorist zealots would overrun his government leading to chaos in the region.

Garbageoff dismissed him, and did not even go to the airport to receive him. In the ensuing two years, the DRA fought the terrorists to the last bullet, until food became scarce and defenses crumbled. The terrorists entered Kabul and began fighting each other (they were self-labeling themselves "Mujahedeen" then).

In the carnage that followed, Kabul was destroyed, millions died and became refugees. I was an 11-yo boy who witnessed my neighbors getting torn to pieces by the rockets fired by the terrorists. I barely survived the rockets myself, and we fled and became refugees in Pakistan.

May Garbageoff rot in hell.

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wiseowise ◴[31 Aug 22 06:05 UTC] No.32658932[source]▶
Death of your people vs death of other people.
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1. wawjgreen ◴[31 Aug 22 06:52 UTC] No.32659193[source]▶
what do you exactly mean?
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2. wiseowise ◴[31 Aug 22 08:19 UTC] No.32659681[source]▶
Red army was shedding blood of their own people to keep peace at Afghanistan.
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3. wawjgreen ◴[31 Aug 22 11:17 UTC] No.32660709[source]▶
If that were truly the case, the red army should not have entered Afghanistan in the first place and kept their little claws to themselves. Now that they entered and created chaos and conditions for civil war, it was on them to clean up the mess.

Moreover, red army was not really shedding all that much blood. They were sending Afghan army to the dangerous fronts--basically to die (my father was one and he told me how the Russians sent them off to an ambush. When the Afghan army halted because they knew they were gonna die, the Russians began shelling them in order to push them forward.).

In any case, the problems were created by Russians and it became their responsibility to fix it. Moreover, they had agreements and treaties and Garbageoff reneged on those.

To the little boy who lost his childhood and future because of his strategic stupidity he is guilty of deceit, incompetence and inhumanity and I will not stop praying that he continues to burn in hell for it.