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Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

Trample is right, You are wrong. imagine that!!!!
Rebels fight in their homeland against a govt and mostly as an organized resistance army. Terrorists attack innocents, usually, in distant lands. Trample said the USSR, not Russia, and there was/is a distinct difference. Afghani rebels fought the Soviets, in Afghanistan, successfully. But you never saw any successful terrorist attacks in Moscow/St. Petersburg. Your Chechen rebels comment just doesn't really apply to the USSR.

This has got to be the most contorted argument ever. I guess Iraqis can't be terrorists. One man's terrorists are another's rebels and according to the USSR Afghani rebels were terrorists (even by our standards they are terrorists):

The mujahideen leaders paid great attention to sabotage operations. The more common types of sabotage included damaging power lines, knocking out pipelines, radio stations, blowing up government office buildings, air terminals, hotels, cinemas, and so on. From 1985 through 1987, an average of over 600 "terrorist acts" a year were recorded. In the border region with Pakistan, the mujahideen would often launch 800 rockets per day. Between April 1985 and January 1987, they carried out over 23,500 shelling attacks on government targets. The mujahideen surveyed firing positions that they normally located near villages within the range of Soviet artillery posts, putting the villagers in danger of death from Soviet retaliation. The mujahideen used land mines heavily. Often, they would enlist the services of the local inhabitants and even children.

They concentrated on both civilian and military targets, knocking out bridges, closing major roads, attacking convoys, disrupting the electric power system and industrial production, and attacking police stations and Soviet military installations and air bases. They assassinated government officials and PDPA members, and laid siege to small rural outposts. In March 1982, a bomb exploded at the Ministry of Education, damaging several buildings. In the same month, a widespread power failure darkened Kabul when a pylon on the transmission line from the Naghlu power station was blown up. In June 1982 a column of about 1,000 young party members sent out to work in the Panjshir valley were ambushed within 30 km of Kabul, with heavy loss of life. On September 4, 1985, insurgents shot down a domestic Bakhtar Airlines plane as it took off from Kandahar airport, killing all 52 people aboard.

You are right in that Russia is not USSR but if I'm not mistaken the KGB still exists to protect the Russian Federation. Be weary my friend, I too can slice hair and I assure you I am very good at it.