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Afghan deaths in the Soviet–Afghan War (1979–89)

On the Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia map as “Afghanistan’s dead”

1979–1989 — Estimates of Afghan deaths in the Soviet war range from about half a million to 2 million, most of them civilians, and some 5 million people, about a third of the population, fled to Pakistan and Iran. The fighting continued after the Soviets left.

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Brezhnev and the Era of Stagnation (chapter 7 of Meiji Japan and post-Soviet Russia)
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Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000
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Map showing Afghan deaths in the Soviet–Afghan War (1979–89), site of memory in Remaking the State: Meiji Japan 1600–1912 and Post-Soviet Russia 1964–2000
SITE OF MEMORY · REMAKING THE STATE: MEIJI JAPAN 1600–1912 AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIA 1964–2000

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