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World Service,21 Apr 1993,28 mins

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First broadcast in 1993. How the limitations of the two dominant superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union, were revealed by the Cold War. "They were telling the soldiers they were not fighting the Mujahideen, they were fighting America...they should stop imperialism there and not in Russia. Later on I found out the same things were told to American soldiers in Vietnam."

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