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Originally Posted by Soviet Ace
The thing I find funny about most movies, like The Beast and Rota 9, that take place on the Soviet side of the war, is how often they always have one or two deserter or dissident in their ranks. When actually, reading up on the Soviet-Afghan war, you'll see that it wasn't a very common thing for Soviet soldiers to do, and that those who did try to leave were usually taken in by a patrol and executed for desertion.
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Considering what was likely to happen to you if you were captured in Afghanistan, I don't blame them.