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|crimes = Mass [[murder]]<br>[[War crimes]]<br>Mass repression<br>Human rights violations<br>[[Propaganda]]<br>[[Torture]]
|crimes = Mass [[murder]]<br>[[War crimes]]<br>Mass repression<br>Human rights violations<br>[[Propaganda]]<br>[[Torture]]
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}}{{Quote|When our party took over political power, the exploiting classes and reactionary forces went into action. The only rusty and antiquated tool that they use against us is preaching in the name of faith and religion against the progressive movement of our homeland... They ought to be uprooted as a cancerous tumor is from the body of a patient in a surgical operation.|[[Nur Muhammad Taraki]]}}The '''People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan''' (Persian: حزب دموکراتيک خلق افغانستان‎, Hezb-e dimūkrātĩk-e khalq-e Afghānistān, Pashto: د افغانستان د خلق دموکراټیک ګوند‎, Da Afghanistān da khalq dimukrātīk gund; abbreviated PDPA) was a Marxist–Leninist political party in Afghanistan established on 1 January 1965. Four members of the party won seats in that year's parliamentary elections, reduced to two seats in 1969, albeit both before parties were fully legal.
}}The '''People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan''' (Persian: حزب دموکراتيک خلق افغانستان‎, Hezb-e dimūkrātĩk-e khalq-e Afghānistān, Pashto: د افغانستان د خلق دموکراټیک ګوند‎, Da Afghanistān da khalq dimukrātīk gund; abbreviated PDPA) was a Marxist–Leninist political party in Afghanistan established on 1 January 1965. Four members of the party won seats in that year's parliamentary elections, reduced to two seats in 1969, albeit both before parties were fully legal.
==Biography==
==Biography==
Since 1919, the Soviet Union had strongly influenced Afghan politics, economy and military. The thousands of Afghan academic students and military trainees in the USSR were compelled to study Marxism and the international communist movement; some of them converted to that ideology. 
Since 1919, the Soviet Union had strongly influenced Afghan politics, economy and military. The thousands of Afghan academic students and military trainees in the USSR were compelled to study Marxism and the international communist movement; some of them converted to that ideology.