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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
I lived with a Russian immigrant girlfriend who got refugee status in c. 1990. The Soviet Union collapsed right after and she told me a very creditable story. Her brother and her divorced husband were political prisoners in Soviet land -- I don't buy Stalinist revisionary stories.
Many soldiers returned home addicted to Afghan opium and heroin similar to the USA's experiences in Vietnam and SE Asia. We had a severe recession but the Soviet economy collapsed and the USSR is no more -- it rotted from the inside and Reagan took all the credit.
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I don't try to revise the Stalinism. I just pointed to the statistics which shows thatUSA today have more people in prisons than USSR has in Gulag during Stalin's era. Nothing personal, only statistics.
As about your girlfriend and her fairytales about Afghan veterans, so she is a stupid whore who knows nothing or she just used you and tried to cause a feeling of pity (I think she was both). I personally know many Afghan veterans, including members of my family. I can assure you: heroin addiction among them is a myth and Western propaganda in a classy Fox style. Course maybe there were some single cases but those were rare and extreme cases. The regime there was absolutely strict and there was no even a chance for anybody to get high with heroine. As a person who was in the Russian army I can assure you that even now the use of heroine is almost impossible there. I'm talking about regular soldiers (do not confuse them with contractors and mercenaries). In Soviet times and especially at war is was 10x times more impossible than now. If caught, you were be sent to a tribunal...