• Justas🇱🇹@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Here’s what stories I remember from USSR-Afghanistan war, told by actual veterans:

    They would punish extremist acts by throwing women and children out of a helicopter, Pinochet style. The person who told me that drank ever since he got back from the war and never stopped.

    There was one man who left his tent for a midnight leak and came back to his entire tent with their throats slit. Had insane PTSD.

    My father-in-law got his legs messed up by machine gun fire, got airlifted to East Germany to get put back together, doesn’t talk much, but still drinks a lot.