This act of political sadomasochism began the week the rebels took Kabul from the Soviet-backed regime.

It said he was trying to distract attention from Pakistan's continued supply of weapons to guerrillas fighting to overthrow the Soviet-backed regime.

After the war decided to collaborate with the Polish communist Soviet-backed regime.

Under Najibullah's Soviet-backed regime, beating and electric shocks were widely reported.

Nevertheless the visit provided an unusual glimpse into the hardships of the seven-year-old war between the Soviet-backed regime in Kabul and the Afghan rebels.

He reminded delegates that the failure to do so after the collapse of the Soviet-backed regime brought about a devastating civil war and destroyed the city.

After the War most of this information was suppressed by the Soviet-backed regime in an attempt to discredit Polish prewar society and government as reactionary.

Much of his other work attacked the Soviet-backed regime as stupid and horrible, but always from a Marxist perspective.

Washington has financed a 13-year proxy war by Muslim guerrillas to topple a succession of Soviet-backed regimes.

(This omission is not surprising, given their inability to detect any problem of dictatorship with the Soviet-backed regime in Afghanistan.)