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:::::Few sources even attempt to calculate the excess deaths caused by the Taliban.  Meanwhile, wild estimates like 500,000-1,000,000 in the civil war following the Russian withdrawal are regularly bandied about by far-left propagandists.  I have no idea what their source is, and there is very little I can find which would support the claim.  Deaths from the civil war are usually overestimated; while deaths from the rule of the Taliban tend to be underestimated.

:::::Few sources even attempt to calculate the excess deaths caused by the Taliban.  Meanwhile, wild estimates like 500,000-1,000,000 in the civil war following the Russian withdrawal are regularly bandied about by far-left propagandists.  I have no idea what their source is, and there is very little I can find which would support the claim.  Deaths from the civil war are usually overestimated; while deaths from the rule of the Taliban tend to be underestimated.

:::::Obviously, only a ''majority'' of these deaths can be attributed to the Communists, but I think it is important to recognize the catastrophe that Afghanistan has become since the Soviet-backed Marxist coup of 1978.

:::::Obviously, only a ''majority'' of these deaths can be attributed to the Communists, but I think it is important to recognize the catastrophe that Afghanistan has become since the Soviet-backed Marxist coup of 1978.