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Soviet Troops Withdrawal from Afghanistan
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A Soviet soldier puts his arm on the tubes of a MI 24 helicopter's machine gun, at the Soviet military airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, 8 February 1989. Some Soviet troops still remain at Kabul Airport, their mission, apparently, to guard it until the Sovie
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The last Soviet to leave Afghanistan, Lieutenant General Boris Gromov, left, with his son Maxin, at the bridge over the Amy Darya River, at Termez, Uzbekistan on February 15, 1989 . The Soviet Commander had crossed from the Afghan town of Khairaton. (AP P
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A smile and a wave from a happy Soviet soldier, as his armored convoy makes its way back to the Soviet Union along a north Afghanistan highway in this Sunday, Feb. 7, 1989, file photo. The Soviet Union lost some 15,000 soldiers in the war, which began in
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Afghanistan civilians bid farewell to departing Soviet troops in Shindand, Afghanistan October 17, 1986.