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Babrak Karmal

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Babrak Karmal (Dari/ببرک کارمل, born Sultan Hussein; 6 January 1929 – 1 or 3 December 1996) was an Afghan politician who was installed as President of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union when they invaded in 1979. [1]

112 relations: Abdul Ghafar Lakanwal, Abdul Hadi Dawi High School, Abdul Qadir (Afghan communist), Afghan Civil War (1989–1992), Afghan National Army, Afghan parliamentary election, 1965, Afghan parliamentary election, 1969, Afghanistan, Afghanistan–Russia relations, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Ajmal Khattak, Anahita Ratebzad, Assadullah Sarwari, Bashir Baghlani, Bob Litherland, Brezhnev Doctrine, Burhanuddin Rabbani, Central Clinical Hospital, CIA activities in Afghanistan, Cold War, Council of Ministers (Afghanistan), Death and state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev, Deaths in 1996, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, Elections in Afghanistan, General Khodaidad, Ghulam Dastagir Panjsheri, Hafizullah Amin, Haji Mohammad Chamkani, History of Afghanistan, History of Afghanistan (1978–92), History of the Soviet Union (1964–82), Human rights in Afghanistan, Index of Afghanistan-related articles, Jimmy Carter, Kerala massacre, KGB, Khalq, List of ambassadors of Afghanistan to the United States, List of coups d'état and coup attempts by country, List of heads of state of Afghanistan, List of ministers of the environment, List of Muslim leaders and politicians, List of state leaders in 1979, List of state leaders in 1980, List of state leaders in 1981, List of state leaders in 1982, List of state leaders in 1983, List of state leaders in 1984, List of state leaders in 1985, ..., List of state leaders in 1986, List of state leaders in the 20th century (1951–2000), Mass killings under communist regimes, Military leadership in the Afghan Civil War, Military occupations by the Soviet Union, Ministry of Justice (Afghanistan), Mir Akbar Khyber, Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi, Mohammad Najibullah, Mohammed Asif Safi, Mohammed Daoud Khan, Murtaza Bhutto, National Front (Afghanistan), National Reconciliation, Nur Ahmed Nur, Nur Muhammad Taraki, Operation Cyclone, Operation Storm-333, Pakistan–Soviet Union relations, Panjshir offensives, Parcham, People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, Politburo of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, Politics of Afghanistan, Presidency of Jimmy Carter, Prime Minister of Afghanistan, Pul-e-Charkhi prison, Revolutionary Council (Afghanistan), Samar Mukherjee, Saur Revolution, Sayed Mohammad Gulabzoy, Settam-e-Melli, Sixth emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly, Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, Soviet–Afghan War, Spetsnaz, Sulaiman Layeq, Sultan Ali Keshtmand, Tanks in the Soviet Union, The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir, United States invasion of Afghanistan, Vice President of Afghanistan, Viktor Fyodorovich Karpukhin, War in Afghanistan (1978–present), War in Afghanistan (2001–present), Weekh Zalmian, Yuri Drozdov (general), Zbigniew Brzezinski, 1979, 1979 in Afghanistan, 1980 in Afghanistan, 1981 in Afghanistan, 1982 in Afghanistan, 1983 in Afghanistan, 1984 in Afghanistan, 1985 in Afghanistan, 1986 in Afghanistan, 1989 FIFA World Youth Championship squads, 1996, 1996 in Afghanistan, 201st Corps (Afghanistan), 3 Hoot uprising. Expand index (62 more) »

Abdul Ghafar Lakanwal

Abdul Ghafar Lakanwal is an Afghan-American politician and activist.

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Abdul Hadi Dawi High School

Abdul Hadi Dawi High School, located in Kabul's District 9 near the 3rd Mikrorayon, is named after Abdul Hadi Dawi (Abdul Hadi Dawai) a renowned Afghan poet, diplomat and government official.

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Abdul Qadir (Afghan communist)

Colonel Abdul Qadir (1944 – 22 April 2014) was born in Herat and trained as a pilot in the Soviet Union.

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Afghan Civil War (1989–1992)

This article covers the Afghan history from the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan on 15 February 1989 until 27 April 1992, the day after the proclamation of the Peshawar Accords proclaiming a new interim Afghan government which was supposed to start serving on 28 April 1992.

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Afghan National Army

The Afghan National Army (ANA) is the land warfare branch of the Afghan Armed Forces.

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Afghan parliamentary election, 1965

Elections were held in Afghanistan in September, 1965.

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Afghan parliamentary election, 1969

From August 29 to September 11, 1969 Afghanistan held its second free parliamentary election since the introduction of the constitution in 1964, with 2,030 candidates standing for the 216 seats of the House of the People and for one-third of the House of Elders.

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan (Pashto/Dari:, Pashto: Afġānistān, Dari: Afġānestān), officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located within South Asia and Central Asia.

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Afghanistan–Russia relations

Afghanistan–Russia relations (Российско-афганские отношения) refers to the relations between the nations of Afghanistan and Russia.

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Ahmad Shah Massoud

Ahmad Shah Massoud (Dari Persian: احمد شاه مسعود; September 2, 1953September 9, 2001) was an Afghan political and military leader.

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Ajmal Khattak

Ajmal Khattak (اجمل خټک) (اجمل خٹک) (15 September 1925 – 7 February 2010) was a Pakistani politician, writer, Pashtun poet, Khudai Khidmatgar, former President of Awami National Party and close friend of the late Khan Wali Khan.

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Anahita Ratebzad

Anahita Ratebzad (Dari/اناهیتا راتبزاد; November 1931 – 7 September 2014) was an Afghan socialist and Marxist politician and a member of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) and the Revolutionary Council under the leadership of Babrak Karmal.

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Assadullah Sarwari

Assadullah Sarwari (born 1930) is an Afghan former politician and convicted war criminal who belonged to the Khalq faction of the communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA).

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Bashir Baghlani

Bashir Baghlani (1931–2007), born Mohammad Yousuf, was a politician in Afghanistan affiliated with a variety of factions throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, who filled such positions as Governor of Baghlan Province and later Farah Province.

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Bob Litherland

Robert Kenneth Litherland (23 June 1930 – 13 May 2011), known as Bob Litherland, was a British Labour politician.

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Brezhnev Doctrine

The Brezhnev Doctrine was a Soviet foreign policy, first and most clearly outlined by Sergei Kovalev in a September 26, 1968 Pravda article entitled Sovereignty and the International Obligations of Socialist Countries.

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Burhanuddin Rabbani

Burhānuddīn Rabbānī (Persian/Pashto: برهان‌ الدین رباني; b. 20 September 1940, d. 20 September 2011) was an Afghan politician who served as President of the Islamic State of Afghanistan from 1992 to 1996 (de jure until 2001).

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Central Clinical Hospital

The Central Clinical Hospital of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation (Центральная клиническая больница c поликлиникой Управления делами Президента Российской Федерации) (also called "Kremlin Hospital", "Kremlyovka" and the "Kremlin Clinic") is a heavily guarded facility seven miles northwest of the Kremlin in an exclusive, wooded suburban area known as Kuntsevo.

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CIA activities in Afghanistan

Since the 1970s, the CIA has engaged in multiple operations in Afghanistan.

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Cold War

The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its satellite states) and powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others).

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Council of Ministers (Afghanistan)

The Council of Ministers was the governmental organ in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and later the Republic of Afghanistan.

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Death and state funeral of Leonid Brezhnev

On 10 November 1982, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, the third General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and the fifth leader of the Soviet Union, died aged 75 after suffering a heart attack following years of serious ailments.

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Deaths in 1996

The following is a list of notable deaths in 1996.

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Democratic Republic of Afghanistan

The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA; جمهوری دمکراتی افغانستان,; دافغانستان دمکراتی جمهوریت), renamed in 1987 to the Republic of Afghanistan (جمهوری افغانستان;; د افغانستان جمهوریت), commonly known as Afghanistan (Pashto/Dari:, Afġānistān), existed from 1978 to 1992 and covers the period when the socialist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) ruled Afghanistan.

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Elections in Afghanistan

This article gives information on elections in Afghanistan. Though Afghanistan has had democratic elections throughout the 20th century, the election institutions have varied as changes in regimes have disrupted political continuity.

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General Khodaidad

Colonel General Khodaidad (خدایداد) is a former Minister of Counter Narcotics of Afghanistan.

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Ghulam Dastagir Panjsheri

Ghulam Dastagir Panjsheri born in 1933 in Panjshir Province during the Kingdom of Afghanistan.

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Hafizullah Amin

Hafizullah Amin (Pashto/حفيظ الله امين; born 1 August 1929 – 27 December 1979) was an Afghan communist politician during the Cold War.

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Haji Mohammad Chamkani

Haji Mohammad Chamkani (1947–2012) was an Afghan politician who held the post of interim President of Afghanistan during the period of the Soviet-backed Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

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History of Afghanistan

The history of Afghanistan, (تاریخ افغانستان, د افغانستان تاريخ) began in 1747 with its establishment by Ahmad Shah Durrani.

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History of Afghanistan (1978–92)

The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan was the government of Afghanistan between 1978 and 1992 recognised by 8 countries.

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History of the Soviet Union (1964–82)

The history of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982, referred to as the Brezhnev Era, covers the period of Leonid Brezhnev's rule of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

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Human rights in Afghanistan

Human rights in Afghanistan is a topic of some controversy and conflict.

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Index of Afghanistan-related articles

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Jimmy Carter

James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981.

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Kerala massacre

The Kerala massacre refers to an incident on April 20, 1979, when government soldiers and policemen drove to a village called Kerala in Kunar Province, eastern Afghanistan, shooting at over one thousand unarmed civilians.

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KGB

The KGB, an initialism for Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (p), translated in English as Committee for State Security, was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its break-up in 1991.

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Khalq

Khalq (خلق, meaning "Masses" or "People") was a faction of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA).

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List of ambassadors of Afghanistan to the United States

The Ambassador of Afghanistan to the United States, officially the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the United States of America, is the official representative of the President of Afghanistan to the President of the United States.

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List of coups d'état and coup attempts by country

This is a list by country of coups d'état and coup attempts, in chronological order.

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List of heads of state of Afghanistan

This article lists the heads of state of Afghanistan since the foundation of the first Afghan state, the Hotak Empire, in 1709.

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List of ministers of the environment

This is a list of ministers of the environment or officials in cabinet level positions with "environment" in their titles.

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List of Muslim leaders and politicians

There is a wide range of Muslim politicians, from theocratic leaders such as Ruhollah Khomeini, dictators such as Saddam Hussein, and democratic leaders such as Benazir Bhutto.

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List of state leaders in 1979

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List of state leaders in 1980

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List of state leaders in 1981

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List of state leaders in 1982

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List of state leaders in 1983

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List of state leaders in 1984

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List of state leaders in 1985

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List of state leaders in 1986

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List of state leaders in the 20th century (1951–2000)

;State leaders: 1901–1950 – State leaders in the 21st century – State leaders by year This is a list of state leaders in the 20th century (1951–2000) AD, such as the heads of state, heads of government, and the general secretaries of single-party states.

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Mass killings under communist regimes

Mass killings occurred under several twentieth-century Communist regimes.

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Military leadership in the Afghan Civil War

The Civil War in Afghanistan (1978–present), also known as the Afghan Civil War and several other names, was a civil war in Afghanistan.

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Military occupations by the Soviet Union

During World War II, the Soviet Union occupied and annexed several countries effectively handed over by Nazi Germany in the secret protocol Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact of 1939.

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Ministry of Justice (Afghanistan)

Current and past governments of Afghanistan have included a Minister of Justice in the Afghan cabinet.

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Mir Akbar Khyber

Mir Akbar Khyber (مير اکبر خيبر) (sometimes spelled Khaibar) (1925 – April 17, 1978) was an Afghan intellectual and a leader of the Parcham faction of People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA).

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Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi

Maulana Mohammad Nabi Mohammadi (محمد نبي محمدي was an Afghan politician Afghan Mujahideen leader who was the founder and leader of the Harakat-i-Inqilab-i-Islami political party and paramilitary group. He served as Vice President of Afghanistan under the Mujahideen from January 1993 to 1996.

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Mohammad Najibullah

Najibullah Ahmadzai (ډاکټر نجیب ﷲ احمدزی; February 1947 – 27 September 1996), commonly known as Najibullah or Dr.

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Mohammed Asif Safi

General Mohammed Asif Safi (1923 — July 26, 2009) (Pashto:تور نجنرال اركا نحرب محمد آصف صافي) was an Army General in the Afghan National Army during King Zahir Shah's rule in Afghanistan, and later during the 1970s era of President Mohammed Daoud Khan.

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Mohammed Daoud Khan

Mohammed Daoud Khan or Daud Khan (July 18, 1909 – April 28, 1978) was the Prime Minister of Afghanistan from 1953 to 1963 and later the President of Afghanistan.

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Murtaza Bhutto

Mir Ghulam Murtaza Bhutto (18 September 1954 – 20 September 1996), was a Pakistani politician.

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National Front (Afghanistan)

The National Front (NF) formerly known as the National Fatherland Front (NFF) was an umbrella organization to the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan which ruled Afghanistan from 1978-1990.

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National Reconciliation

National Reconciliation is the term used for establishment of so-called 'national unity' in countries beset with political problems.

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Nur Ahmed Nur

Nur Ahmed Nur (نور احمد نور), an Afghan communist, belonging to the Parcham fraction.

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Nur Muhammad Taraki

Nur Muhammad Taraki (15 July 1917 – 8 October 1979) was an Afghan statesman during the Cold War who served as President of Afghanistan from 1978 to 1979.

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Operation Cyclone

Operation Cyclone was the code name for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program to arm and finance the mujahideen, in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989, prior to and during the military intervention by the USSR in support of its client, the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

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Operation Storm-333

Operation Storm-333 (Шторм-333, Shtorm-333) was an operation that took place on 27 December 1979, in which Soviet Union forces stormed the Tajbeg Palace in Afghanistan and assassinated Afghan President Hafizullah Amin.

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Pakistan–Soviet Union relations

The Soviet Union–Pakistan relations (Russian: Союз Советских Социалистических Республик -Пакистан; or USSR-Pakistan relations) refers to historical, political, international, and cultural relationships between the state of Pakistan and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).

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Panjshir offensives

The Panjshir offensives (Панджшерские операции – Panjsher Operations) were a series of battles between the Soviet Army and groups of Afghan Mujahideen under Ahmad Shah Massoud for the control of the strategic Panjshir Valley, during the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the period from 1980 to 1985.

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Parcham

Parcham (Pashto/پرچم, meaning "Banner" or "Flag") was the name of one of the factions of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan.

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People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan

The People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (حزب دموکراتيک خلق افغانستان, Hezb-e dimūkrātĩk-e khalq-e Afghānistān, د افغانستان د خلق دموکراټیک ګوند, Da Afghanistān da khalq dimukrātīk gund; abbreviated PDPA) was a political party established on 1 January 1965.

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Politburo of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan

The Politburo of the Central Committee of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) was the ruling organ when the PDPA Central Committee and the PDPA Congress were not in session.

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Politics of Afghanistan

The politics of Afghanistan consists of the council of ministers, provincial governors and the national assembly, with a president serving as the head of state and commander-in-chief of the Afghan Armed Forces.

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Presidency of Jimmy Carter

The presidency of Jimmy Carter began at noon EST on January 20, 1977, when Jimmy Carter was inaugurated as 39th President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 1981.

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Prime Minister of Afghanistan

The Prime Minister of Afghanistan was a post in the Afghan government.

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Pul-e-Charkhi prison

Pul-e-Charkhi (Persian: زندان پل چرخی), also known as Pul-i-Charkhi or Afghan National Detention Facility, is the largest prison in Afghanistan east of Kabul.

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Revolutionary Council (Afghanistan)

The Revolutionary Council of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) ruled the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from 1978 until its collapse in 1992.

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Samar Mukherjee

Samar Mukherjee (সমর মুখোপাধ্যায়; 7 November 1913 – 18 July 2013) was an Indian politician of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) who served as member of the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Parliament of India for the Howrah constituency for three consecutive terms from 1971 to 1984, and as a member of the Rajya Sabha from 1986 till 1993.

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Saur Revolution

The Saur Revolution (إنقلاب ثور or ۷ ثور (literally 7th Saur); د ثور انقلاب), also called the April Revolution or April Coup, was a coup d'état (or self-proclaimed revolution) led by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) against the rule of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan on 27–28 April 1978.

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Sayed Mohammad Gulabzoy

Major General Sayed Muhammad Gulabzoi (born 1951) is an Afghan politician.

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Settam-e-Melli

Settam-e-Melli (Dari Persian for "National Oppression"), variously romanized as Setam-i-Milli, Setami Milli, Setam-i-Meli, Setam-e-Meli, Setami-i-Milli, and Setame Melli, was a political movement in Afghanistan, led by Tahir Badakhshi.

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Sixth emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly

The sixth emergency special session of the United Nations General Assembly was held between 10 January – 14 January 1980 to consider the situation in Afghanistan.

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Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan

The final and complete withdrawal of Soviet combatant forces from Afghanistan began on 15 May 1988 and ended on 15 February 1989 under the leadership of Colonel-General Boris Gromov.

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Soviet–Afghan War

The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years, from December 1979 to February 1989.

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Spetsnaz

Spetsnaz (p), abbreviation for Войска специа́льного назначе́ния, tr. Voyska spetsialnogo naznacheniya, (Special Purpose Forces or Special Purpose Military Units), is an umbrella term for special forces in Russian and is used in numerous post-Soviet states.

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Sulaiman Layeq

Sulaiman Layeq (سليمان لايق, sometimes also Romanised as Laeq or Laiq) (born 12 October 1930) is an Afghan politician, ideologue and poet.

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Sultan Ali Keshtmand

Sultan Ali Keshtmand (سلطان‌علی کشتمند), sometimes transliterated Kishtmand, born May 22, 1935, in Kabul, was an Afghan politician.

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Tanks in the Soviet Union

This article deals with the history and development of tanks of the Soviet Union from their first use after World War I, into the interwar period, during World War II, the Cold War and modern era.

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The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir

The Other Side of the Sky: A Memoir (originally published as The Story of my Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky) is a memoir by Farah Ahmedi with Tamim Ansary.

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United States invasion of Afghanistan

The United States invasion of Afghanistan occurred after the September 11 attacks in late 2001, supported by close allies.

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Vice President of Afghanistan

The Vice President of Afghanistan is the second highest political position obtainable in Afghanistan.

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Viktor Fyodorovich Karpukhin

Viktor Fyodorovich Karpukhin (October 27, 1947 – March 24, 2003) was a member of the KGB who was instrumental in the Soviet war in Afghanistan.

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War in Afghanistan (1978–present)

This article covers the history of Afghanistan since the communist military coup on 27 April 1978, known as the Saur Revolution, when the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) took power.

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War in Afghanistan (2001–present)

The War in Afghanistan (or the U.S. War in Afghanistan; code named Operation Enduring Freedom – Afghanistan (2001–2014) and Operation Freedom's Sentinel (2015–present)) followed the United States invasion of Afghanistan of October 7, 2001.

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Weekh Zalmian

Wíṣ Zalmiyān/Weekh Zalmyan (Pashto: ويښ زلميان or Awakened Youth) was a youth movement started in Afghanistan in 1947 in Kandahar.

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Yuri Drozdov (general)

Yuri Ivanovich Drozdov (Юрий Иванович Дроздов; 19 September 1925, Minsk – 21 June 2017, Moscow) was a high level Soviet and Russian security official.

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Zbigniew Brzezinski

Zbigniew Kazimierz "Zbig" Brzezinski (March 28, 1928 – May 26, 2017) was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist.

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1979 in Afghanistan

The following lists events that happened during 1979 in Afghanistan.

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1980 in Afghanistan

The following lists events that happened during 1980 in Afghanistan.

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1981 in Afghanistan

The following lists events that happened during 1981 in Afghanistan.

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1982 in Afghanistan

The following lists events that happened during 1982 in Afghanistan.

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1983 in Afghanistan

The following lists events that happened during 1983 in Afghanistan.

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1984 in Afghanistan

The following lists events that happened during 1984 in Afghanistan.

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1985 in Afghanistan

The following lists events that happened during 1985 in Afghanistan.

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1986 in Afghanistan

The following lists events that happened during 1986 in Afghanistan.

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1989 FIFA World Youth Championship squads

Head coach: Carlos Oscar Pachamé.

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1996

1996 was designated as.

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1996 in Afghanistan

The following lists events that happened during 1996 in Afghanistan.

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201st Corps (Afghanistan)

The 201st 'Selab' (Flood) Corps of the Afghan National Army is a corps-sized formation created from 2004.

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3 Hoot uprising

The 3 Hoot uprising (قیام 3 حوت, Qeyam-e 3 Hut) refers to a week of civil unrest in Kabul, Afghanistan that started on February 22, 1980, occurring two months after the Soviet intervention.

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Redirects here:

Babrak, Barbrak Karmal, Karmal, Mohammed Hussein, Mohammed Hussein Khan.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babrak_Karmal

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