Word: rilla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...serious threat to the Soviet military occupation, but it was a devastating political humiliation for Moscow. First of all, it gave the Muslim insurgency a new dimension of credibility: the Kabul general strike demonstrated exactly the kind of organized resistance that had been conspicuously absent from the disunited guer rilla campaign the mujahidin (as the Muslim "holy warriors" call themselves) have been conducting in the countryside. At the same time, the civilian rage gave the He to the Kremlin's arguments that in the name of reciprocal friendship its forces had run to the rescue of the Afghan people...