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Originally Posted by White Out 403
someone correct me if im wrong, but, didnt the endless body bags home cause enough of an issue that they gave up on Afghanistan?
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I am not old enough to understand what the mood was around the Afghan War, but I doubt it was a popular war at home for Russians to begin with. It seems like many Russians believe that Ukraine represents an existential threat, so maybe they are more inclined to put up with losses as compared to a war in Afghanistan.
Russia/the USSR did the same thing in Afghanistan that they are doing in Ukraine. They are leaning heavily of non-Russians, and people from more remote areas to fight. In Afghanistan, 25% of the soldiers who fought were actually Ukrainian and a similar percentage were from the Central Asian SSRs. Russians from places like Moscow and St. Petersburg were largely shielded from the war, until of course the economic impacts made them notice.