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What if prominent Soviet politicians Grmyko and Kosygin are proven wrong and the Mujahideen take a hammering in the Soviet/Afghan war against them from 1979 to the early 80s. How can this happen? and does it help maintain the USSR? and nip Islamic fundamentalism in the bud?and what are the implications for the world today? There was a huge disparity in numbers as the holy warriors were about 10 times bigger in troop numbers!
One possible way of a Stallinist victory would be to have the United States turn the other way and give no aid/advice to the Mujahideen. I bet some wish now that they had adopted this policy!Was it their Vietnam, well the NVA-Viet Cong were mainly nationalists and in fairness not religious psychotics and their subsequent intervention in Paul Pot's Cambodia serves to prove that!