September 26. 1984. Nicholas Danzinger. a British lecturer in art history who created the above image of Hiroshima in Herat. was only one of many who described such scenes of total devastation in the Afghan countryside. People coming from Just about every area of AfghanistanWestern scholars. journalists. doctors and nurses. as well as the Afghan refugees and resistance fighters themselvestell of vast destruction: carefully constructed homes reduced to rubble. de_ serted towns. the charred remains of *.heat fields. trees cut down by immense firepower or dropping their ripe fruit in silence. with no one to gather the harvest. Prom throughout the country come tales of death on every scale. from thousands of civilians buried in the rubble left by fleets of bombers to a young boys throat being dispassionately slit by a Soviet soldier. This mass destruction is dictated by the political and military strategy of the Soviet Union and its Afghan allies.
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