In the Kite Runner how did the Soviet war and the rise of the Taliban affect the politics, society, and/or culture of Afghanistan?

Social and political fragmentation lies at the heart of
The Kite Runner. I think that one of the most compelling issues
that arise out of the book is Hosseini's depiction of an Afghanistan that is so
polarized and fragmented coming out of the war with the Soviet Union that it enabled the
Taliban to seize power without much in way of opposition.  In a setting that was fraught
with fragmentation, disunity, and disorder, people in Afghanistan were quite content
with the order and structure offered by the Taliban.  The solutions they offered were
that proverbial oasis in the desert.  This landscape was caused by the brutality and
incremental desolation of Afghanistan's war with the Soviet Union.  The Communist
takeover left much to be desired in Afghanistan and the emergence of the Northern
Alliance followed by the Taliban compelled citizens in Afghanistan to believe that such
political realities would be far more desirable than what was being offered by the
Soviet Union.  With the fleeing of the elite and upper class people as a result of the
Soviet takeover, and as a result of the war with Afghanistan, the masses felt that what
the Taliban was proposing would benefit them, ensuring little, if any, resistance to
their ascent to power.  Like all regimes that emerge out of fragmentation, the body
politic found that their hopes were not to materialize.