Three years after the Soviet invasion, the guerrillas fight on
The anniversary was marked in a peculiar but strangely appropriate way. The 35,000 Soviet soldiers stationed in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, were put on the highest alert. Armored cars, their sirens wailing, raced through the streets as truck convoys dropped Soviet soldiers off at the main intersections. Roadblocks were set up every hundred yards or so, and citizens were stopped, searched and asked for their identification cards. Meanwhile, squads of soldiers went house to house, looking for high school graduates to...
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