Tanks For The Memories!

Welcome to Tank Graveyard! For nearly ten years, The Soviet-Afghan War was raged in the Afghanistan Desert. The result of the conflict known as the Afghan Civil War showed the Mujahideen Rebels victorious and the Soviets went home to Russia defeated with the sting of their version of Vietnam War is now apart of history. On February 15, 1989, the Soviets left all facilities and machinery in the region after the last troops has withdrawn. Hundreds of tanks left in the sandstorms for over twenty years.

Today, the people of Afghanistan are doing the same thing as the factory workers in Argentina (1), utilizing the waste. The Afghan Army are using the former Soviet base as a training facility for their troops to better prepare them in armored tank warfare. Whatever materials that are not being used in the training exercises are being sold as scrap metal to the Chinese Government.

Locke's theory comes into play for seeing that the Soviet Union who occupied Afghanistan for a long duration, withdrew their forces after losing the war and left all weapons of war behind. They obviously didn't want it so, the Afghan Army claimed it as their own personal property. Once the Army is finish using the materials, they are selling it to China once again proving they are adhering to Locke's principals of not wasting goods since it would spoil from the climate. These actions would be seen as progress but Locke would ponder what if the countries of the west would follow suit.



1) http://www.thetake.org/index.cfm?page_name=the_zanon_struggle