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Kindly do not clutter up this antinato list with your cant and hypocrisy. Dick Casey took a keen interest in the whole operation and as he said "Go win it!". You persistently claim these operations never took place. The collaborators and Quislings were those who supported and were paid by the CIA> --- Rolf Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK > --------------------------- > > UNITE! Info #19en: 3/4 Social-imperialism's Afghan > war > [Posted: 09.10.96] > > [Continued from part 2/4] > > > CHAPTER 3: CERTAIN "MARXISTS" TODAY ON > EVENTS '79-'89 > > A) *Opposing standpoints* > > On the recent execution of Najibullah, one of those > people in > Afghanistan on whose "political line" even the > Soviet revision- > ist chieftain Kosygin had earlier commented (see > Chapter 2): > "I cannot understand why this question arises...The > question of > sending people who would climb into your tanks and > shoot on your > people. This is a very serious political question.", > I wrote to > the Jefferson Village Virginia Marxism list on 02.10 > i.a.: > > >The islamic "Talibans" who have recently conquered > Kabul in > >Afghanistan, in the unfortunate internal fighting > which has > >followed on the social-imperialists' forced > retreat, are a > >pretty reactionary lot, it seems. But one thing > they did well: > >They hung Nadjibullah, the infamous pro-Soviet > Quisling. > > This stung one other writer to that list into > replying on the > same day, giving his own version of what had taken > place in Af- > ghanistan in 1979-1989: > > >I was frankly sickened by Rolf Martens recent post > celebrating > >the execution, by the new Taliban fundamentalist > regime in > >Kabul, of the former Afghan President, Najibullah. > > >I won't comment here on Mr Martens' assessment of > the histori- > >cal viccissitudes of the past 17 years, other than > to say that > >while the Peoples' Democratic Party of Afghanistan > [PDPA] made > >numerous (and highly visible) errors in their > twelve years of > >rule, their sins were and are dwarfed by the > actions of their > >enemies. > > >As far as Mr Martens' reading of the historical > record itself > >is concerned, well, the less said about that the > better. > > >The governments of the PDPA, it should be > remembered, > >instituted a system of universal education, > literacy, health > >care, and subsidized housing in nearly all of the > 30 provinces > >of the country. They fashioned a labor law that > was the most > >progressive in Asia, admitting workers from both > the public > >and private sectors to specialized secondary and > higher schools > >regardless of nationality, age, sex or other > factors, > >providing for free child care, and raising wages > by an average > >of 26 per cent (with the lowest paid receiving > raises of up to > >50 per cent). They subsidized the distribution > of petrol, > >diesel fuel, kerosene, sugar, wheat flour, and > firewood and > >other staples to such an extent that famine in > areas under > >their control was virtually eliminated. > > >But by far the most important reform instituted by > the > >successive PDPA governments involved land reform. > In the > >three major land reform acts (1978, 1981, 1985), > the effects > >were not confined to a redistribution of land in > favor of the > >poorest peasant families. They gave impetus to > the growing > >cooperative movement and freed the peasants from > the grip of > >landowners and usurers. The same acts provided > for the mass > >education of all in the countryside under the > slogan "Everybody > >at the school desk", and attempted to put an end > to > >discrimination against ethnic minorities, > especially in the > >areas of culture and language. > > >Opposed to this was the mujadaheen--a cancerous > class of > >parasites, the mullahs, the landowners, the > usurers- > >frenziedly feeding on the largesse of the Saudis, > the > Iranians, the Pakistanis >and, of course, the most > loathesome > >entity of all, the Reagan--Casey CIA. And > since this is > >the Marxism list, let us not fail to acknowledge > the SWP, > >the ISO, and others who, while as notably > effective as a wet > >fart in a monsoon as far as doing anything good, > are always > >willing to jump in at imperialism's behest, > increasingly now > >even before being asked. The back of my hand to > all of them. > > >And to you, Mr Martens. > > Reading this posting, you might think there wasn't > any war at > all in Afghanistan during that time - no 1.5 million > people > killed, no 5-6 million refugees, no 7,000 villages > completely > destroyed by the invader through helicopter gunship > bombing, > for instance. > > What that invader's puppet forces did, according to > this writer, > was in the main to "institute a system of universal > education", > "put into effect a labour law", "raise wages", > "subsidize pet- > rol" etc etc. - all while the foreign ground and air > forces they > had begged for on their knees to be sent in were > ravaging the > country. And "the most important ting of all" they > did was a > "land reform" - when in fact what was done to > agriculture in > Afghanistan during the decade in question was its > large-scale > destruction, when in fact the whole country was > littered with > the enormous amount of anything between 10 and 60 > million mines, > far more than had been used in any country in any of > the world > wars and an enormous hindrance to the toiling of the > land in > Afghanistan for many decades to come too. > > "Well", he concedes, those puppet forces "made > numerous (and > highly visible) errors". That's the *sum* of what he > has to > say about the Soviet social-imperialists' 10 years > long war of > aggression and the support of it on the part of > their puppets. > He doesn't like my reminding people of it today: > "The less > said" about my "reading of the historical record", > "the better". > > And he's "frankly sickened" by my finding the later > execution of > one of those Quislings a good thing. "The back of > his hand" he > gives to me, since I condemned the foreign genocidal > aggression > and their part in it. > > > B) *What's a Quisling?* > > === message truncated === __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? 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