Saur Revolution
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The Saur Revolution, also known as the April Revolution or the April Coup, was a violent coup d'état and uprising staged on 27 and 28 April 1978 by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, which
Troops and vehicles at the gates of the Arg (presidential palace) in Kabul on 28 April 1978
A BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle, used by the PDPA, destroyed by the Presidential Guard
La Liberté guidant le peuple Eugène Delacroix Musée du Louvre Peintures RF 129 après restauration 2024
Mohammad Daoud Khan
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Mohammad Daoud Khan, also romanized as Daud Khan or Dawood Khan, was an Afghan military officer and politician who served as prime minister of Afghanistan from 1953 to 1963 and, as leader of the 1973
Saur Revolution
…violent coup d'état and uprising staged on 27 and 28 April 1978 by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA), which overthrew Afghan president Mohammad Daoud Khan, who had himself taken power in the 1973 Afghan coup d'état and established an autocratic one-party system in the country. Daoud and most of his family…
Official portrait, 1973
Daoud Khan in 1956
Daoud Khan visiting National Iranian Radio and Television in Iran, c. 1974.