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Текст о влиянии Афганской войны на распад СССР.
The war created a moral crisis for the Soviet people and tarnished the prestige of the military, inaugurating a growing rift between the two. It also accentuated the ethnic divisions within the country, not only because this was a war of ‘Muslims’ against ‘Russians’, but also because those outside the Russian Republic felt they were bearing the brunt of the casualties. The war seems to have intensified ethnic strife within the army itself, magnified by the greater visibility of the armed forces in time of war. In the forces, a ‘we and they’ syndrome among European soldiers vis-a-vi all Muslims, whether Afghan or Soviet arose. An army reflects the society it serves, so unsurprisingly ‘the problems so apparent in the wartime army soon became a microcosm for the latent problems afflicting Soviet society in general. The messages of doubt were military, political, ethnic, and social. In the end they were corrosive and destructive.’