On the first day of school, she had proudly told the class that she was the daughter of a poor peasant from Khost.
She stood straight, and wore her jet-black hair pulled tightly back and tied in a bun so that,
when Khala Rangmaal turned around, Laila could see the dark bristles on her neck.
Khala Rangmaal did not wear makeup or jewelry. She did not cover and forbade the female students from doing it.
She said women and men were equal in every way and there was no reason women should cover if men didn't.
She said that the Soviet Union was the best nation in the world, along with Afghanistan.
It was kind to its workers, and its people were all equal.
Everyone in the Soviet Union was happy and friendly, unlike America, where crime made people afraid to leave their homes.
And everyone in Afghanistan would be happy too, she said, once the antiprogressives, the backward bandits, were defeated.
“That's why our Soviet comrades came here in 1979. To lend their neighbor a hand.”
“To help us defeat these brutes who want our country to be a backward, primitive nation.”
“And you must lend your own hand, children. You must report anyone who might know about these rebels.”
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