Originally posted by omon
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For instance it is claimed that the most favoured recruits were from industrial backgrounds (invariably Slavic or atleast European) assigned to front-line shock units in Europe for the push into Fulda Gap, and to a lesser extent acros the Soviet-Chinese border. Such units were never pulled out to serve in Afghanistan - with Airborne and Spetnaz units being the obvious exceptions. In the hinterland, second-class units were supposedly filled with those from rural backgrounds (Central Asians and Caucasians). It was they who formed the bulk of the units sent into Afghanistan from nearby Turkestan and other CAR military regions. Is their analysis completely wrong?
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