Total NATO presence in Afghanistan

Total NATO presence in Afghanistan: an increase in opium poppy cultivation in 40 times!
   
The day before yesterday, speaking at the State Kremlin Palace on the opening ceremony of the Christmas Readings, director of the Federal Drug Control Service VP Ivanov sounded very interesting facts:

- Afghan heroin has become a national problem of Russia's society

- The actual number of drug addicts in Russia .... to about two and a half million people, with 90 per cent of drug addicts .... are precisely heroin addicts. As a result, the country loses annually from heroin to 30-40 thousands of young people.

- ... whole as used in our heroine comes to us only from Afghanistan, which .... since the inception in 2001, the U.S. operation "Enduring Freedom", has become the absolute leader in world heroin production - today one of the country produces 2 times more heroin than 10 years ago produced all over the world.

 - For eight years after the invasion, U.S. and NATO in Afghanistan where opium poppy crops grown by more than 40 times! In forty!
  - ... until then, just three years, from 1999 to 2001, according to the UN and then Under Secretary General Pino Arlacchi, the Taliban shot down the production of opiates to near zero.

- Afghan heroin, almost seamlessly moving from Afghanistan to Russia in recent years become a kind of Styx - the river of death. And Charon carries and carries through the river in nikuda.Prichem, Styx - the traffic is from Afghanistan - and the origins of the Afghan province of Helmand, by the way, the zone of responsibility of British and American troops, which for a long time peacefully coexist side by side drug crops and heavily armed foreign military .

- Today, even the phenomenon of piracy in the Gulf of Aden, the world community qualifies as a threat to international peace and security - a planetary phenomenon of Afghan drug production, no.

- According to an official statement from Director of UNODC Antonio Maria Costa, in the last year of Afghan heroin in the world died more than 100 thousand people. What, by the way, even more than the number of deaths due to explosion of a nuclear bomb "Little Boy" on Hiroshima in 1945