Mujahadeen Quotes

“I saw houses burned by the Mujahadeen, as well as disfigured bodies of prisoners they’d taken. But I saw other things too: villages destroyed by our shelling and bodies of women, killed by mistake. When you shoot at every rustling in the bushes, there’s no time to think about who’s there. But for an Afghan, it didn’t matter if his wife had been killed intentionally or accidentally. He went into the mountains to see revenge.”
― Vladislav Tamarov, Afghanistan: A Russian Soldier's Story

“He was holding his right leg, but the blood soaked through his fingers and flowed over his hand onto his sleeve. Intuition had served me again this time: my kick had knocked his automatic out of his grasp a fraction of a second before he could press the trigger. The second kick was to his face. It sent him flying about six feet. I set my sights on his head, but something stopped me, one of our guys let out a yelp behind me. Another bullet whistled by right next to me. Apparently, this Mujahadeen was not the only one here. Again, I aimed at his head, but something again stopped me. I saw how his hands were trembling. I noticed the horror in his eyes. 'He is only a boy!' I thought and pressed the trigger.”
― Vladislav Tamarov, Afghanistan: A Russian Soldier's Story

“Fondness for Afghanistan’s guerrillas extended far beyond the executive office. Of all of the covert actions undertaken by the United States in the 1980s, the war in Afghanistan was far and away the most popular among U.S. policymakers from both major parties, mostly because they liked the idea of killing Soviet soldiers without sacrificing American lives.”
― Kyle Burke, Revolutionaries for the Right: Anticommunist Internationalism and Paramilitary Warfare in the Cold War