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THE UNION, Page 64LEGACY OF AN UNPOPULAR WAR
The gloom of a hospital ward, an injured man contemplating
his future, a young soldier's face on a tombstone: all part of
the aftermath of a war the Soviets started in 1979 and abandoned
last February, when the last of Moscow's troops rolled out of
Afghanistan. The Kremlin's misadventure not only cost the lives
of some 15,000 Soviet soldiers and left 35,000 injured but also
marked the first time the U.S.S.R. had ever been defeated in
war. As illustrated by these photographs, mostly taken at a
military hospital outside Moscow, the agony of Afghanistan goes
on, especially for the luckless wounded, wearing their bandages
like withered garlands of battle.