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Afghanistan's Saur Revolution: 40th Anniversary

Forty years ago the Afghan Communist party overthrew President Mohammad Daoud. Abdullah Shadan from 大象传媒 Afghan Service was a journalist at the state broadcaster at the time, and watched events unfold.

Image: Afghan communist supporters in Kabul 1979
Photo credit: S Sobolev/AFP/Getty Images

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