She begins the article by saying: When the Soviets announced their last soldier had left Afghanistan in February. the voices of skepticism were all but drowned out by an international chorus of euphoria. It was "the Soviets Vietnam." The Kabul regime would fall. Millions of refugees would rush home. A resistance government would walk into Kabul. Those who bought that illusion are now bewildered. Eight months after Gen. Boris Gromov walked across the bridge into the U.S.S.R.. a Sovietcontrolled regime remains in Kabul. the refugees sit in their camps.-Over 3 million of then. 3Y2 million in Pakistan and a million in Iranand the restoration of Afghan freedom seems as far off as ever. But there never was a chance that the Afghan resistance would overthrow the Kabul regime quickly and easily. Soviet leaders said they would support their Kabul clients by all means necessaryand did.
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