1978 Saur Revolution event
also: another coup, second coup, late 1970s quote-unquote revolution, April 78 coup
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Afghanistancountry · 5CIAintelligence service · 4Soviet Unioncountry · 4Mohammad Daoud Khanperson · 31973 Chilean coup d'étatevent · 2People's Democratic Party of Afghanistanorganization · 2Committee of 40organization · 1Afzal Aminperson · 1Vietnam Warevent · 1
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▶ 9:24
So basically, that ended about two centuries of empire-type leadership in Afghanistan. So about five years later, after the original coup in 73, there was another coup in which Khan was overthrown. Only this time,…
▶ 9:54
He was actually executed. They didn't give him a chance to abdicate or leave or go into exile or whatever. So this second coup at the end of the 70s was orchestrated by a group called the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, PDPA.…
▶ 10:23
They basically wanted to set up more of a big government, kind of socialist type government. And in most literature, you will hear people say that it was aligned with the Soviet Union. The research that I have found does not indicate that t…
▶ 10:53
That is something that the CIA wanted people to believe. And I'll tell you why in a second. The uprising was basically ordered by a guy by the name of Afizullah Amin, A-M-I-N. And what you're going to find out by reading…
▶ 11:22
the non-approved sources of this, is that there were several members of this late 1970s quote-unquote revolution that had been infiltrated into a completely fake communist party that had been set up in Afghanistan by the CIA.…
▶ 14:39
Very diversified farming. But what the CIA and the Committee of 40 and everybody else saw was opium fields, poppy fields. So they orchestrated this second coup and supposedly did so by impersonating communists. So they basically said, hey, …
▶ 22:49
The guys sitting in Afghanistan of the same religion are freedom fighters for Ronald Reagan as he's coming into office. But the guys next door are our enemy because they're holding our Americans captive in the embassy. So just so that you c…
▶ 32:39
Two months after the April 78 coup, an alliance formed by a number of conservative Islamic factions in order to transition to a guerrilla war, which is what the CIA is going to participate in and create the Soviet Union's own Vietnam. One p…