Meanwhile, back in Russia, the Libya allies at the former USSR-run newswire, Pravda, wrote in an op-ed by Lisa Karpova for the wire that NATO is popping the cork on the champagne too early on this fight.

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It was used in the USSR-Afghanistan war back in the 1980s.

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At the Museum of the Occupation of Latvia, they try to show visitors what life was like in Soviet times, displaying many personal items which people smuggled back from prison camps in Siberia, and kept hidden until the fall of the USSR.

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