USSP: Hints of Prolonged Stay in Afghanistan
Prcvda acknowledged on Saturday that threo Soviet soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan. On Sunday Bed Scar carried an article conoaring the Afghan insurgents to Nazis, claiming that they have killed thousands of Afghans in their efforts to overthrow the regime. Last week Soviet lecturersomestic audience that the development of support for the Afghan Goverriment is going tolow and difficult process but that the USSR will persevere because its national interests are at stake, m
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Comment: czen artieltl over the last ShrM years nave acknowledged the problemsSoviet* face in Afghanistan or have indirectly hinted at theirin combat. The two new articles came soonecent conference of propagandists in Moscow. They suggest that the more open handling of Sovietaffairs in the media also will apply to treat-tent of Afghanistan. The comparison of Afghan insurgents to Nazis and the invocationhreat to Soviet security interests are intended to appeal to Soviet patriotism."
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