and everybody realized that the war was going on in afghanistan, yet russian soviet television and newspaper said that the soviet soldiers were fulfilling what they called international duty in afghanistan. all they were doing there was planting flowers, you know, helping with renovation of cities, et cetera, et cetera. so everybody, literally everybody in the ussr knew that the actual war was going on and people were dying there, and, of course, their mothers were not happy about that fact. but yet at the same time how many people took to the streets? zero. was i when i was a teenager at 13, 14, 15 years old planning to say no when and if i was to be sent to afghanistan? no. i did not want to go to
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