Afghanistan Four Years On: An Assessment
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“The transformation of a traditional society could only be achieved extremely slowly, and certainly not by wrecking its existing structure and relationships. Even in the Soviet Union there had been the ‘great mistakes’ of the 1920s and 1930s. As a Soviet official in Moscow was also reported as saying [in 1981], ‘If there is one country in the world where we would not like to try scientific socialism at this point in time, it is Afghanistan.’” — Martin Ewans, Afghanistan (2001)
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تاریخ انتشار 2005