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Afghanistan chose to take the path of socialism and modernity. The triumph of the Revolution brought the PDPA to power, and in a few days it made Muhammad Taraki president. The new socialist regime had a titanic task. Afghanistan was a backward and very poor society, with brutal inequality and considerable poverty. The illiteracy rate was over 95%. The most important measures that the Saur revolution and the new socialist government of Afghanistan were going to take focused on education, the economy and society. - Construction of thousands of schools and hiring of teachers - Study of local languages for the first timeImage In 5 years, one million people in Afghanistan had gone through literacy programs, while the health policy provided infrastructure in this area as well, increasing hospital beds by almost 100% and the number of doctors by 50%. Image A comprehensive agrarian reform that provided land to peasants, freeing them from slavery based on debts to the landowner, condoned by a Decree.
The State began to provide seeds and aid to farmers, creating cooperatives (left).Image And other measures in the cultural and social sphere were the following: .Legal equality between men and women Abolition of child marriage .Divorce Law Right of women not to wear veils Legalization of female work - Prohibition of opium cultivation ImageImage All these measures angered the most reactionary sectors: rural bourgeoisie, landowners, Islamic clergy, etc. The first bloody riots, with murders and beheadings of teachers, civil servants Australia Phone Number and communists, took place in Nuristan in June 1978. Image One of the great lies repeated in the West was that the Saur Revolution had Soviet sponsorship. However, the Government of the Saur revolution displeased the USSR, which was slow to recognize the Government. The first countries to do so were Persia, India and the United KingdomImage However, the reactionary dictatorship of Pakistan and the US fought the Saur regime from the beginning. On July 3, 1978, Carter began the process of financing and arming the Islamists, fathers of the current Taliban, who were fighting the Afghan socialist government.Image As EL PAÍS recognized in 1979, the main opposition to the Afghan socialist regime was Islamism, which did not prevent the West from supporting them, mourning them, curing them, financing them or giving them a platform.
Islam, the main opposition force to the Kabul regime uprising in Herat, where Islamists murdered, beheaded, beheaded or raped communists, government officials and teachers. The West only condemned the Afghan government's subsequent "repression" of the terrorists. ImageImage The Pakistani camps, sponsored by the United States, had been infested with terrorists since at least June 1978. In the West, these mujahideen (that is, fighters of the Islamic faith) were presented as "freedom fighters."Image Arms shipments arrived from China, Pakistan and the US throughout 1979. It was an undeclared war against the Saur revolution.Image The terrorists who planted an average of 60 bombs a month and killed about 1,000 civilians, according to calculations by the Afghan Government in 1978 and 1979, were advised and financed by the US, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. ImageImage As noted in an article at the beginning of 1980 in EL PAÍS, agrarian reform and literacy were the elements that most fueled the radical Islamists.
The State began to provide seeds and aid to farmers, creating cooperatives (left).Image And other measures in the cultural and social sphere were the following: .Legal equality between men and women Abolition of child marriage .Divorce Law Right of women not to wear veils Legalization of female work - Prohibition of opium cultivation ImageImage All these measures angered the most reactionary sectors: rural bourgeoisie, landowners, Islamic clergy, etc. The first bloody riots, with murders and beheadings of teachers, civil servants Australia Phone Number and communists, took place in Nuristan in June 1978. Image One of the great lies repeated in the West was that the Saur Revolution had Soviet sponsorship. However, the Government of the Saur revolution displeased the USSR, which was slow to recognize the Government. The first countries to do so were Persia, India and the United KingdomImage However, the reactionary dictatorship of Pakistan and the US fought the Saur regime from the beginning. On July 3, 1978, Carter began the process of financing and arming the Islamists, fathers of the current Taliban, who were fighting the Afghan socialist government.Image As EL PAÍS recognized in 1979, the main opposition to the Afghan socialist regime was Islamism, which did not prevent the West from supporting them, mourning them, curing them, financing them or giving them a platform.
Islam, the main opposition force to the Kabul regime uprising in Herat, where Islamists murdered, beheaded, beheaded or raped communists, government officials and teachers. The West only condemned the Afghan government's subsequent "repression" of the terrorists. ImageImage The Pakistani camps, sponsored by the United States, had been infested with terrorists since at least June 1978. In the West, these mujahideen (that is, fighters of the Islamic faith) were presented as "freedom fighters."Image Arms shipments arrived from China, Pakistan and the US throughout 1979. It was an undeclared war against the Saur revolution.Image The terrorists who planted an average of 60 bombs a month and killed about 1,000 civilians, according to calculations by the Afghan Government in 1978 and 1979, were advised and financed by the US, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. ImageImage As noted in an article at the beginning of 1980 in EL PAÍS, agrarian reform and literacy were the elements that most fueled the radical Islamists.