If you add to that the proliferation of small shopkeepers in the cities, and a deeply-rooted tribal structure with tribal property rights, which leaders becomes obvious.
These problems could have been overcome only by a patient process of educating the masses coupled with a series or radical social measures. But cheSted st tradition of oxinty Ar coupled proximity Moscow, ruled out this course.
To institute a regime as autocratic as the one it replaced - despite much talk about democracy — was hardly likely excite the Afghanistan. Only a thoroughgoing revolutionary democracy could have allowed the new regime to win the support of the masses. Instead the press was curbed and the model of the government (in propaganda) was clearly the Kim Il Sung regime in North Korea.
Factional struggles in the PDPA were solved by expulsions ultimately killings. sor, Taraki, was killed in September 1979 during one such struggle. right-wing religious leaders utilised all this to strengthen their rebellion. The use of napalm and Soviet helicopters and planes to bomb the tribes into submission was bouad to fail.
Popular Now the Russiaris have committed sense wesliter regime whose initial popular support in the first few months after overtitow: ot the hated baond has now totally evaporated. Their style of intervention is not unfamiliar. Shoot the recalcitrant leader (Ime Nagy in : Hungary: and 11OW Afghanistan), . replace Aim more amenable figure, and use Soviet troops and tanks to ensure stabluty.
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the magnitude faced the new IRAN citizens of.
of and Amin's predecesThe support Russian proxy.
shore up the been arguing that US should play Brezhnev's.
Amin in Karmal: with a Gemano revolutions Post Office as a newspaper Pablished by Europe. The Russian intervention will enable the right-wing rebels to win internally and externally. Afghanistan will become the frontline for the cold war, where soldiers (carefully chosen from Central Asia) can be killed by The Soviet intervention will also option: give succour to all those in the United States and Western Europe who have La more interventionist alding role in different parts of the globe message Babrak ongratulating him on his election to office must surely be on of the more cynical gestures froni a Stalmist leader in recent years.
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O Paktia INDIA succeed with mass attempt to substitute Russian soldiers fortie people of Afghanistan can end only in disaster: Either the Russians will have to withdraw in any event and accept a goverament of a different complesion, or they will get bogged down in along war. There is no third That is why we have no hesitation in calling for the immediate drawal of Russian troops. Far from the struggle against imperialist forces- Afghanistan, they can on binder it. All observers are agreed the the motley collectior of religious C ositionists have mass support, but fo coherent project. The entry of Soviet troops may well help to give them one.
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