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The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan: war without end

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What Does It Mean to Be an Afghan?

Afghans were wrestling with this question of what does it mean to be Afghan, says John Defterios. The Soviet Union was able to help some reconcile those two things, he says. But the party almost immediately starts infighting again after coming to power in April 1978 and that really helps to further aggravate the civil war," defterios adds.

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