One shouldn't confuse reason with ideology. To see the Soviet supported government of Afghanistan as being a better situation for the common person (especially women) than any of the governments which followed or preceeded it, is a rational, empirical observation, just as opposing the plunge of Anglo-Saxon Imperial power into the loins of the Middle East is a rational judgement based on working class interest.
Neither nationalist nor Stalinist,
Mike B)
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