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The Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan
On 15 February 1989, the last Soviet soldiers rolled out of Afghanistan.
It was nine years since they had first been ordered in.
They left behind a country which would soon descend into civil war.
(Photo credit: Vitaly Arman/AFP/Getty Images)
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