But to date. the United States has given no Patriot missiles to the Afghans to shoot down the Scuds and protect themselves. In the eyes of the Afghan people. Najibs regime Is associated with the horrors of the Soviet occupation and the deaths of 1.5 million Afghans. equivalent to about 29 million citizens of the USSR losing their lives. or 50 percent more than the terrible losses of the Great Patriotic War. The Soviet occupation has also resulted In the displacement of 67 percent of the Afghan population and the exile of onethird of the population as refugees In neighboring countries. Seventy percent of Afghanistan was destroyed. In 1990.
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