Putin on Afghanistan: Russia Learned From USSR Intervention – We Learned Our Lesson

THE Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had learned its lessons from the Soviet Union’s intervention in Afghanistan, and that it will not, therefore, deploy its armed forces in that country to take part in a “conflict of all against all”.

“THE USSR had gained her own experience from her stay in Afghanistan. “We have learned the right lessons,” he said, speaking at a conference of the ruling United Russia party dispute has been going on for several decades in Afghanistan.

According to the APE, Putin added that “it is self-evident, we do not intend to interfere in the internal affairs of Afghanistan and much more to send our armed forces in a conflict of all against all.”

It is recalled that the Soviet army withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989.

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