Indeed. There WAS a dedication at the end of the film, it was dedicated to the people of Afghanistan.
The hoax theory that the end credits were changed has been debunked countless times by people purchasing old copies of the film on VHS, some of us are old enough that we saw the film and owned it on VHS. While I’d be lying to say I could accurately recall from the first time I saw the film, subsequent reviews of my early VHS copy corroborates what others have found across multiple editions. You can also find film reviews published at the time in digital archive and original print format which quote the end dedication. There may be some mandala effect at play to those who recall otherwise, or they could be confused because Rambo DOES fight alongside the Mujahideen in the film and they are portrayed positively.
It is worth noting that the Mujahideen splintered and the roots of the Taliban and some other organizations that are at the least problematic in the eyes of much of the modern world formed from those splinters, but conflating the entities is like conflating the modern American government with the Confederate states of America because they both split from the same source and involved many of the same people afterwards. It isn’t that the two can be completely separated, but they also can’t be conflated.
The hoax theory that the end credits were changed has been debunked countless times by people purchasing old copies of the film on VHS, some of us are old enough that we saw the film and owned it on VHS. While I’d be lying to say I could accurately recall from the first time I saw the film, subsequent reviews of my early VHS copy corroborates what others have found across multiple editions. You can also find film reviews published at the time in digital archive and original print format which quote the end dedication. There may be some mandala effect at play to those who recall otherwise, or they could be confused because Rambo DOES fight alongside the Mujahideen in the film and they are portrayed positively.