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The decision to install a USSR-backed government in Kabul turned the Soviets into an international pariah, and they eventually withdrew from Afghanistan in February 1989.

For more than a year, thousands of classified documents flowed from the TRW complex to the Soviets, with Boyce sometimes smuggling them out in potted plants.

They feared a bloody conflict with Arab countries that might draw in the US, risking Cold War escalation with the Soviets.

By 1945, about 24 million Russians and other Soviets had been slaughtered in the war with Germany.

"The West tore down the Berlin Wall together. And it has been rebuilt - not by the Soviets or the Russians, but by the German establishment," he wrote on X.