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Read "the Road to Oxiana" -Afghanistan used to be one of the most modern places in the middle east. That's why the communist ideologists figured they could take

• dragonwriter 12y ago
  > Read "the Road to Oxiana" -Afghanistan used to be one of the most modern places in the middle east. Afghanistan has never been in the Middle East. > That's why the communist ideologists figured they could take over No, they figured that because of the combination of local instability and geographical proximity to the Soviet Union.
• RBScott 12y ago
  With the overthrow of the King in the summer of 73, Daoud set up a government that was a combination of nationalists, like himself, and communists (University people mostly trained in the US)which included many army people trained in the USSR. But by the late 70s, Daoud began eliminating the communists from his government, made them nervous so the army communists staged the coup with the university people in the key government positions.