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- THE UNION, Page 64LEGACY OF AN UNPOPULAR WAR
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- The gloom of a hospital ward, an injured man contemplating
- his future, a young soldier's face on a tombstone: all part of
- the aftermath of a war the Soviets started in 1979 and abandoned
- last February, when the last of Moscow's troops rolled out of
- Afghanistan. The Kremlin's misadventure not only cost the lives
- of some 15,000 Soviet soldiers and left 35,000 injured but also
- marked the first time the U.S.S.R. had ever been defeated in
- war. As illustrated by these photographs, mostly taken at a
- military hospital outside Moscow, the agony of Afghanistan goes
- on, especially for the luckless wounded, wearing their bandages
- like withered garlands of battle.
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