IRAN landlord (based on clans, blood ties, backwardness and a particular form of patriarchy) has been challenged but so far not weakened at all. The vast scale of the rebellion in the hills is. sufficient proot of that. And time is running short.
To win back the countryside, the Soviet Union has been pouring in yast quantities of farm and factory aid. And the government has embarked on bold five-year-plan, "Planning is an important instrument the implementation of programme of the PDPA to create a man shall never exist'. But the future remains uncertain.
Most confusion has been sown by yet unexplained purging Taraki and his replacement by Amin. One minute Taraki was 'The Great Leader of the People of Afghanistan, General Secretary of the CC of the PDPA, President of the Revolutionary Council, and President of the Homeland's High Defence Council'; the next minute his death was being announced in an eight line column at the bottom of the back page of the Kabul Times. very strange, quite normally associated with a repressive People are willing to talk foreigner, for the PDPA. Even students sporting the Khalqi insignia are unwilling to discuss the merits of their party.
Even in the ministries, questions are often met with cryptic stating: and ambiguous answers. occasion the government employee when we were interrupted by demonstration. He said he had to go. "What is it about?, I asked. 'I don't know', he said. T'll shout whatever they want me to shout.' of the day in government's purges internal dissensions; but the Islamic rebels (the majority of whom don't even both to soften reactionary views) are also divided Therefore chaos reigns supreme.
The socialist Afghanistan is living dangerously. If the government can claim any mass support at all, it is only in the purged 'impromptu' weekly Inprecor (Vol Division seems to be the order of Afghanistan. The Cuba don't conceal revolution.
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