Soviet Mi-8 helicopter flying past the Bamiyan Buddhas, Afghanistan, 1980 — monuments that stood for 1,500 years before their destruction in 2001.

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    1. Suspicious-Slip248 on

      Crazy part is this statue stood there for 1,500 years. Saw empires rise and collapse — Kushans, Mongols, Mughals, British, Soviets. Wars, invasions, regime changes… all came and went.Then in 2001, a few years of fanaticism did what centuries of war couldn’t.Not destroyed by time. Not by weather. Not by conquest.Destroyed by insecurity and fear of stone

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