Soviet War in Afghanistan/april 1985 - January 1987 - Exit Strategy

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    If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.
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    Summer of man its sunlight and its flower,
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    John Masefield (1878–1967)

    Of course in war all madnesses come out in a man, that is the fault of war not of a man or a nation.
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    That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.
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