Soviet War in Afghanistan/march 1980 %e2%80%93 April 1985 - Soviet Offensives

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    “Thou art thy mother’s glass, and she in thee
    Calls back the lovely April of her prime.”
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    “In the Soviet Union everything happens slowly. Always remember that.”
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    “When all is over and you march for home,
    The spoils of war are easily disposed of:”
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    “In time of war you know much more what children feel than in time of peace, not that children feel more but you have to know more about what they feel. In time of peace what children feel concerns the lives of children as children but in time of war there is a mingling there is not children’s lives and grown up lives there is just lives and so quite naturally you have to know what children feel.”
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