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On 15 February 1989, the last Soviet soldiers rolled out of Afghanistan.
It was nine years since they had first been ordered in.
They left behind a country which would soon descend into civil war.
(Photo credit: Vitaly Arman/AFP/Getty Images)
By BBC World Service4.3
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On 15 February 1989, the last Soviet soldiers rolled out of Afghanistan.
It was nine years since they had first been ordered in.
They left behind a country which would soon descend into civil war.
(Photo credit: Vitaly Arman/AFP/Getty Images)

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