Radio War Nerd EP99—Soviet-Afghan War 1979-1989

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With Trump re-surging in Afghanistan, in America's longest war ever, the War Nerd and Ames look back at the Soviet experience in the 1980s and dispel some myths. The Soviet war in Afghanistan was not as devastating as has been popularly claimed, and it did not cause the USSR to collapse. And wars can go on for as long as leaders want them to and as long as the money press keeps pumping, unless there's organized political pushback...

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