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Originally Posted by 1andrew1
Don't know how much free reign the Soviet forces had or how experienced they were.
Apparently lots of Soviet teenager soldiers were sent there on their first mission. The deaths of relatively young soldiers there contributed to the unpopularity of the USSR amongst its peoples and helped its 1989 demise.
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Well their hands were not tied like ours was as for experience the Army had held a fair few counties in its iron grip since WWII as for who they sent I dunno. I certainly would not be surprised if some of our dead were young inexperienced troops on their first mission. I know a friend of mine who was in the TA served a short period of time in either Iraq or Afghan I cannot remember which ( have a feeling it might have been the first Iraq war )