The Afghanistan Section is divided into three chapters which inform the deconstruction of the conflict’s discourse. In order to demonstrate how multiple sites of production operate in a moment of discursive dominance the representations of the Soviet’s intervention are deconstructed and the interactions between the sites of production, by tracing their use of key meta-narratives, is analysed. Specifically, the section is organized along the transformations between the phases of the discursive helix for each representational strand. One of the key thematic devices deployed by Reagan to construct the discursive condemnation of the Soviet Union’s actions was the nature of resistance forces. Within Reagan’s representations these actors came to be described as virtuous, legitimate, freedom fighters, and as such these constructions served to create conditions whereby the Soviets’ presence was deemed to be illegitimate. This chapter traces the use of the people trope and the manner in which it constructed the broader resistance meta-narrative. The interaction between the three sites of production and the key junctures wherein representational shifts occur will be displayed. The chapter commences by providing a breakdown of the people trope/resistance meta-narrative during the production phase, moving to the sustaining phase, and finally outlining its evolution to the challenge phase of the discursive helix.