Who would you support in the Soviet-Afghan War?

[OSR stands with Israel]

Neither but if had to choose the Afghans, the Soviets were the greater threat to the world and freedom and would have used Afghanistan to increase their influence in the world possibly delaying an end to the cold war. Soviet Communism is more evil then any ideology except Nazism. Lastly the worst the tailban could do doesnt come close to matching the risk of a Nuclear Holocaust if the Soviets won.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Probably Afghanistan at the time, but neither with hindsight.

You would support the Afghan government but not the USSR?

Yes see my reasoning

[OSR stands with Israel]

Probably Afghanistan at the time, but neither with hindsight.

You would support the Afghan government but not the USSR?

Yes see my reasoning

Both of you are aware that the Soviet Union was fighting on the side of the Afghan government, right?

I said the Afghan rebels to defeat the evil Soviets

[OSR stands with Israel]

Probably Afghanistan at the time, but neither with hindsight.

You would support the Afghan government but not the USSR?

This. People forget there was no Soviet "invasion". They intervened to defend the Afghan Communist government from armed reactionaries.

I also hate this notion that the Mujaheddin were anything other then Islamists who were hell bent on turning Afghanistan into a backwards hellhole. They launched a rebellion against the notion of women's rights and land reform. They were no better then the French counter-revolutionaries, the White Russians, or the Confederate rebels of the American Civil War. If anything they were actually worse.

Soviet Communism was more evil than any other ideology except Nazism

[OSR stands with Israel]

What I dont get about the fringe left(Not Democrats but Socialists) is during the Iraq and Afghanistan war they called the Iraq and Afghanistan insurgents not terrorists but just resistors to the  American Occupiers but when it comes to when the Soviet Union fighting the insurgents they are nothing but islamic fundamentalists  who want to destroy freedom which the Soviet Union is trying to bring to Afganistan. Never Mind that more people died in The Soviet War in Afghanistan then the US war in Iraq,  the USSR was far far more brutal then the US ever was and unlike the US they didnt care about civilian casualties. Also unlike the US they didnt try to impose democracy in Afghanistan, they imposed a dictatorship. This proves the fringe left is hypocritical just like the fringe right is


On a side note: I do think the US war in Iraq was unjustified but I do think the US war in Afghanistan was justified

[OSR stands with Israel]

Last thing if the Soviets didnt create a communist coup in Afghanistan and then invaded  the Taliban would never have  risen to power as they rose to power because the USSR destroyed all infrastructure in Afghanistan which created a civil war. Woman's rights in Afghanistan would be a reality like 1979 and there would be no Islamic fundamentalist rule which would mean no safe haven for terrorists to train which means no al-queda. So the Soviet invasion is responsible for many of the troubles the world faces today