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Originally Posted by nik-
Legitimately though, does anyone know how many Canadians went to fight the Russians in Afghanistan? I can't find any information or statistics on it. I'm guessing they didn't think about this type of thing back then.
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If there were any Canadians who fought the Soviets in Afghanistan, they were almost certainly motivated by Cold War fervor, not Islamist terrorism. Let's not forget that the US government supplied arms to the Mujaheddin and there was even a
James Bond film in which he fought alongside them.