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Originally Posted by Chris
These became known as the Mujahideen, who overran the Soviet puppet government shortly after the withdrawal of the Red Army, almost as quickly as the Taliban overran Kabul this week.
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I posted part of a Sky News article earlier which stated the time frames of over-running the incumbent regimes was vastly different.
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At least the then Soviet-backed government in the Afghan capital clung to power for three years following the Russian withdrawal.
The Western-supported administration of Ashraf Ghani barely lasted three hours once the Taliban reached the gates of Kabul, with the president and his closest aides fleeing to exile without putting up any kind of resistance.
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https://news.sky.com/story/events-in...ussia-12383629