Thread by @ObaidullaBaheer

Bitter Facts:
- #Ahmed Shah #Massoud gave safe passage to #USSR invading troops into #Afghanistan in exchange for money.
- #ASM had a major role in the bombing of #Kabul during civil war.
- ASM used #opium to fund his fight against #Taliban, dubbed by US gov as druglord
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- #ASM kept asking #CIA for weapons and endorsement of his resistance and then settled for being paid for spying on Bin Laden.

No, these facts can’t be countered by listing what Hekmatyar did. Everyone seems to remember that. This is to counter selective readings of history.
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I refuse to engage in these arguments most of the time because it generates more hate than solve much but it’s important to not be unjust to history. You don’t see me cursing or cussing at him. He was an imperfect figure as are most that #Afghanistan has had.
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Reference for USSR intelligence contract:
See Boris Gromov, Ogranichennyy Kontingent [Limited Contingent] (Moscow: Progress, 1994), pp. 180-88; Aleksandr Lyakhovskiy, Tragediya i doblest’ Afgana [The Tragedy and Valor of the Afghan Veterans] (Moscow: Iskona, 1995), pp. 630-74;

Bruce G. Richardson, Afghanistan, A Search for Truth (Toronto: Afghan Post, 2007), pp. 81-92, Bruce G. Richardson; The Barefoot Coarse Cotton Wearers; pp. 63-78, ‘Memoirs of Dr. Muhammad Hassan Sharq, 1931-1991, ‘Ghost Wars’ Steve Coll, 2014

And just for fun you can read Mr Hekmatyars “Hidden Conspiracies and unmasked faces” in which he references Russian Generals discussing the arrangement.