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Once Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, by then a very old 73, gave the go-ahead, Soviet troops seized the Afghan capital of Kabul and installed a puppet government.
勃列日涅夫当时已经73岁了，在他的一声令下，苏联军队打下了阿富汗的首都喀布尔，建立了傀儡政府
The Soviets eventually deployed 85,000 elite soldiers in Afghanistan, but could not control the rugged countryside outside of Kabul.
苏联最后派遣了8.5万名精兵战士去往阿富汗，但是还是控制不了喀布尔之外崎岖的乡村地带
The Soviets also proved unable to train the Afghani army into a force which could stand on its own two feet.
同时苏联也无法将阿富汗军队训练成自主自立训练有素的军队
The Soviets were forced to settle for occupying Kabul and maintaining a bloody stalemate everywhere else.
苏联不得不在喀布尔驻兵在其它所有地方也都维持着伤亡惨重的僵局
The USSR's splendid little war had turned into another Vietnam.
苏联的漂亮小仗变成了又一场越战
The Soviet press tried hiding the war from the people.
苏维埃媒体试图向人们隐瞒战况
But by the time Soviet forces withdrew over a million Soviet soldiers ultimately served in Afghanistan, and as more came home dead, word got out.
但是在苏维埃军队撤出前最后有超过一百万苏维埃战士在阿富汗服役，随着越来越多的战士阵亡消息仍然传开了
To make matters worse, America, Saudi Arabia, and China all supported the anti-Communist rebels, such as "mujahedin."
更糟糕的是，美国、沙地阿拉伯和中国都支持反共产主义分子，例如圣战士
Muslim fighters came from around the world to join the mujahedin's fight against the Russians, recruited by, among others, a young Saudi named Osama bin Laden.
来自全世界的穆斯林战士加入反对俄国的圣战中，招募这些圣战士的人当中，有一位年轻人叫做奥萨马·本·拉登
