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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.
勃列日涅夫當時已經(jīng)73歲了，在他的一聲令下，蘇聯(lián)軍隊打下了阿富汗的首都喀布爾，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.
蘇聯(lián)最后派遣了8.5萬名精兵戰(zhàn)士去往阿富汗，但是還是控制不了喀布爾之外崎嶇的鄉(xiāng)村地帶
The Soviets also proved unable to train the Afghani army into a force which could stand on its own two feet.
同時蘇聯(lián)也無法將阿富汗軍隊訓練成自主自立訓練有素的軍隊
The Soviets were forced to settle for occupying Kabul and maintaining a bloody stalemate everywhere else.
蘇聯(lián)不得不在喀布爾駐兵在其它所有地方也都維持著傷亡慘重的僵局
The USSR's splendid little war had turned into another Vietnam.
蘇聯(lián)的漂亮小仗變成了又一場越戰(zhàn)
The Soviet press tried hiding the war from the people.
蘇維埃媒體試圖向人們隱瞞戰(zhàn)況
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.
但是在蘇維埃軍隊撤出前最后有超過一百萬蘇維埃戰(zhàn)士在阿富汗服役，隨著越來越多的戰(zhàn)士陣亡消息仍然傳開了
To make matters worse, America, Saudi Arabia, and China all supported the anti-Communist rebels, such as "mujahedin."
更糟糕的是，美國、沙地阿拉伯和中國都支持反共產(chǎn)主義分子，例如圣戰(zhàn)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.
來自全世界的穆斯林戰(zhàn)士加入反對俄國的圣戰(zhàn)中，招募這些圣戰(zhàn)士的人當中，有一位年輕人叫做奧薩馬·本·拉登
