Download Afghanistan's Saur Revolution: 40th Anniversary
Forty years ago the Afghan Communist party overthrew President Mohammad Daoud. Abdullah Shadan from BBC 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
Published on Friday, 27th April 2018.
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