The Russian invasion was in a large part driven by the population of Afghanistan rebelling against the central government attempting to impose that sort of libe

The Russian invasion was in a large part driven by the population of Afghanistan rebelling against the central government attempting to impose that sort of liberalism. This isn't particularly controversial, even the baseline Wikipedia article about the invasion mentions this in the first couple paragraphs. Afghans in the West are a ridiculously unrepresentative sample; you might as well talk about the views of Americans in Mecca.