Afghanistan
Sir, — The hypothetical scenarios postulated by Mark Sadler and Ross Couper (February 23), sound impossibly and ludicrously absurd in a New Zealand setting. They sound no less impossibly and ludicrously absurd in the setting of the Soviet-Afghanistan alliance to defend the 1978 Afghan revolution against its internal and external enemies. Ever since the Russian Revolution, the capitalist West has, by armed force, attempted to drown, not only proletarian revolutions, but also national liberation struggles in blood. Today the Afghan people, with Soviet aid, are building socialism, protected by Soviet troops from the futile attempts by the expropriated feudal classes, operating from Pakistan, armed, trained, and financed by the United States and China, to regain their lost status. The counter-revolutionaries’ attempts to obstruct Afghanistan’s progress towards socialism are attributed a grossly exaggerated success in Western news agencies’ reports. — Yours, etc., M. CREEL. February 23, 1984. [This correspondence is now closed — Editor]
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