Lieutenant-General Boris Gromov, the last commander of the 40th Soviet Army in Afghanistan, stated in a 1986 memo: "After seven years in Afghanistan there is not one square kilometre left untouched by the boot of a Soviet soldier. But as soon as they leave the place, the enemy returns and restores it all the way it used to be. We have lost this war."
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