Rare color photos from the 1980s bring the the U.S.S.R.'s "hidden war" to light.
'Jihad By Camera': How U.S.-Trained Afghans Photographed The Soviet Invasion
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As well as their main task of chronicling the war, the teams of AMRC photographers shot everyday life, like these money changers in Peshawar.
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Soviet weaponry depicted on a carpet woven by Afghan refugees.
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An air strike shatters an Afghan village. Much of the fighting was a brutal back-and-forth with mujahedin ambushes on Soviet convoys followed by Soviet aircraft wiping out villages near the sites of the attacks.
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A mujahedin fighter holds the remains of a parachute bomb. The design allows ground-attack jets to drop bombs at low altitude without being caught up by the explosion.