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image of an Afghan fighter captured in 1989 by Viktor Khabarov during the withdrawal of Soviet troops. He was working around the USSR’s border with Afghanistan as the Soviet army prepared to withdraw. Khabarov and a colleague raced across 300 miles of Afghan terrain in search of great photos before Soviet troops stopped them from going further. “Everyone was leaving, and we were trying to get back in,” Khabarov told The Post.