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THE UNION, Page 64LEGACY OF AN UNPOPULAR WAR
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.