Afghanistan (was Re: Butler on Spivak)

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>Russell Grinker wrote:
>>>. . . Vanguard is hilarious. A typical headline is CHINESE
>>>STALINISTS BLOODY HANDS OFF FALUN GONG!
>>>
>>How about this on the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan:
>>
>>"Hail the Red Army!"
>
>The headline is only moderately hilarious if one considers the relative
>conditions in Afghanistan under Soviet occupation and under the
>Taliban. While the Red Army of the 1970s might not be much to
>"hail" -- it has since become something that many people quite
>reasonably miss.
>
>Carrol

Just out of curiosity, does anyone remember how left-wingers in America or
elsewhere, as individuals or parties, acted with regard to Afghanistan &
the USSR?  Russell says that the Spartacists "hailed the Red Army."  What
about others?  Opposed the Soviet intervention?  Went further and supported
the Afghan Mujahideens and their male right to "self-determination"?  Did
hand-wringing and "condemned both"?  Expressed "ambivalence"?  Fell into an
embarrassed silence?

Yoshie