In the twilight of the Cold War, the United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings, part of covert attempts to spur resistance to the Soviet occupation.
The primers, which were filled with talk of jihad and featured drawings of guns, bullets, soldiers and mines, have served since then as the Afghan school system's core curriculum. Even the Taliban used the American-produced books, though the radical movement scratched out human faces in keeping with its strict fundamentalist code.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2002/03/23/from-us-the-abcs-of-jihad/d079075a-3ed3-4030-9a96-0d48f6355e54/
Hommaa muija
>>53259920
>though the radical movement scratched out human faces in keeping with its strict fundamentalist code.
I don't think I'll ever understand muslims
>>53259920
>USSR DID NOTHING WRONG
it did a lot wrong
which is why it collapsed
Glorious thread, comrade. Will dump some pics. But first, WE SHALL SING A SONG.
https://youtu.be/wKDD1H-Hlpc
>>53259920
Slava Stalin comrade.
Soon we will crush this system and build a giant gulag for the revenge
>>53259920
>USSR DID NOTHING WRONG
Besides killing 60 Gorillon people.
>>53259987
It collapsed because they had to spend 1/3 of their money in not getting nuked by murika
>>53259987
This
They could not afford the cold war, they could not diversify their economy enough, nor could they keep up with the 70-80s tech race. So something was very wrong.
They also murdered 70.000.000 million people in gulags
>>53259972
I originally thought that they didn't like images of Muhammad because it might make the people worship the image instead of Allah. If this is their reasoning, why ban the faces of other people? Are they so weak willed that they will begin worshiping any picture with a face on it?
>>53260167
go home imperialist piggu
>>53260167
I think it's the depiction of the human form in general since they consider it to be sacred or something.
What I really don't understand is how they go nuts over the smallest things, like seeing some bitches ankles, someone drinking or somebody in a foreign country drawing a fucking picture, but are perfectly fine with fucking other men in the ass (as long as they say NO HOMO), pedophilia and executing innocent people.
>>53260210
Get fucked spic.
>>53260115
yet it was economically comparable to America in the 50s and 60s if not more advanced in some areas.
the massive buildup only happened as the USSR was in its massive decline already.
the real reason is planned economics are inefficient and ultimately always fail to meed the needs of a complex economy.
the USSR had a massive bureaucracy and state of the art computer technology in service just to keep the thing running, but the more it grew the more the bureaucracy needed to grow and the more bloated the entire enterprise became until it just broke down.
>Children were taught to count with illustrations showing tanks, missiles and land mines, agency officials said. They acknowledged that at the time it also suited U.S. interests to stoke hatred of foreign invaders.
>"I think we were perfectly happy to see these books trashing the Soviet Union,"
>>53260282
>when Abdul doesn't say No Homo after cuddle/just friends bumfuck
>>53260479
>see you later Abdul
remember when he was just a moderate rebel, like the ones in Syria?
>"The pictures [in] the texts are horrendous to school students, but the texts are even much worse," said Ahmad Fahim Hakim, an Afghan educator who is a program coordinator for Cooperation for Peace and Unity, a Pakistan-based nonprofit.
What about the millions of mines planted by the soviets that kill children to this day?
>>53260857
>MUH CHILDREN
>>53260857
LIES AND PROPAGANDA. SOVIETS BUILT SCHOOL, FACTORIES, UNIVERSITIES. USA DESTROYED EVERYTHING.
>>53259920
Ryssä pois!
>>53259920
>USSR DID NOTHING WRONG
It lost the Cold War. That seems pretty wrong to me.
>>53260857
>What about the millions of mines planted by murricans that kill children to this day?
Enjoy your life of poverty Russia.
Lol desu that's not USSR but Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic coat of arms. You're stupid mongol.
>>53260167
Orthodox had a whole thing about banning icons due to them being worshiped rather than god himself, till a compromise was reached. I'm guessing moohamed copypastad it one some capacity since he was in contact with various branches of christianity popular in me at the time.
+5 rubles ;^)
>>53259920
>its the finn with the ussr fetish
Afghanistan deserved what it got.
>>53266082
you deserved worse than you got though tb h
>>53260163
>They also murdered 70.000.000 million people in gulags
Lmao, there are actual people out there who believe this bullshit.
>>53266120
i agree
Slava Stalin comrades
>>53259920
so the US is yet again responsible for everything bad in the world
what else is new?
>>53259920
Yes, I LOVE USSR.
>>53265625
>there's difference
USSR = JUSTICE
USA = EVIL
>>53266304
>>53266366
USSR and USA is a two sides of the same coin.
>>53266284
>what else is new?
>be serb
>get bombed
FUCK NATO
>>53259920
holodomor
>>53266819
>things that never happened
>>53266582
Jews were treated as rats in the USSR
>>53266746
Someone get this hothead outta here!
>>53267176
lenin wasnt a jewish intellectual
>>53260163
70000000000000000000000000 trillion gazillion*
>>53259920
>USSR DID NOTHING WRONG
it died too late. Actually, it still exists. Please kill it with lancers and abrams.
>>53271628
>t. liberaha
>>53259920
This!
American cancer must be eradicated!
>>53266819
Holodomor, Srebrenica, lies, lies, lies.
>>53260115
The fact they had to spend a third to try and match America shows how shit they were.
t. Igor Virtanen