Soviet Communism was more evil than any other ideology except Nazism
You don't know what you're talking about. Radical Islamism is patently worse for every sector of society then Stalinist Communism could ever be.
North Korea > ISIL.
Well firstly the PDPA government was not exactly anyones idea of 'legitimate' (not in a traditional Afghan way, not in a Western Democratic way, etc) and was as blatant a Soviet puppet government as could have ever been wished for
This is beside the point.
(particularly after the Soviets helped the one faction kill off the other).
This was the right thing to do for reasons previously mentioned in this thread.
Secondly, to describe the Mujahideen as 'armed reactionaries' is to place crude propaganda other accuracy. They were an incredibly diverse bunch of people united - and it is a bit of a stretch to use that word - by a desire to rid their country of foreign occupation. Mostly they were just ordinary Afghans.
Yes they were a very diverse group of people, united in their desire: to revolt against the social progress made by the Afghan Communists. These people were led by local warlords and were explicitly Islamist in character. To deny this is nothing more then historical revisionism.
Yes many of them were "ordinary Afghans" (what an obvious weasel phrase, by the way). Ordinary Afghans who wanted to overthrow the Communists to entrench their conservative Islamist way of life.
Nothing I said is in any way racist. You saying this just proves you are being defensive and have no real argument to substantiate your point. In your world anyone who criticizes third world people's ideologies = racist. If anything you're expressing the soft bigotry of low expectations. It's not like the Taliban just appeared out of thin air. There was the sociological pretext that enabled it.
There was a significant base of people who gladly supported that movement, and rural conservative culture that enabled it . You're in denial.
