Afgantsy Quotes

“It was perfectly clear that Afghanistan was not ripe for socialism: religion was a tremendous force, the peasants were almost completely illiterate, the economy was backward. Lenin had set out the necessary elements of a revolutionary situation. None were present in Afghanistan.”
― Rodric Braithwaite, Afgantsy: The Russians In Afghanistan, 1979-1989

“Tanks could not solve what was essentially a political problem. If the revolution in Afghanistan could only be sustained with Soviet bayonets, that was a route down which the Soviet Union should not go.”
― Rodric Braithwaite, Afgantsy: The Russians In Afghanistan, 1979-1989

“whom we betrayed and sold down the river when we left Afghanistan, leaving them and their families to the mercy of the victors.”
― Rodric Braithwaite, Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89