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Soviet Massacres in Afghanistan

To fully examine Marxist-Leninist Bolshevik ideology and its
record of savagery, we must also look at the countries invaded by the
Soviet Union. Afghanistan was one of those subjected to the greatest
cruelty.
In 1978, Communist army generals and some Communist civilians
organized a coup in Afghanistan, announced that henceforth, the coun-
try would be run by a Communist regime. They also initiated a ruthless
war against religion. A book on the subject describes this policy as fol-
lows:
Shortly afterward, the government began an antireligious crusade. The
Koran was burned in public, and imams and other religious leaders were
arrested and killed. On the night of 6 January 1979 all 130 men in the
Mojaddedi clan, a leading Shiite group, were massacred. All religious
practices were banned... 56
Afghanistan Communists were paid by the Soviet Union, inflicting
mass murder on their own people according to directives sent by "advi-
sors" from Moscow. After a short time in power, they inflicted great ter-
ror. Afghanistan scholar Michael Barry describes one such incident:
In March 1979 …1,700 adults and children, the entire male population of
the village [of Kerala], were all assembled in the town square and ma-
chine-gunned at point-blank range. The dead and dying were thrown into
three mass graves and buried with a bulldozer. For a while afterward, the
women could still see the earth move slightly as the wounded struggled to
escape, but soon all movement stopped. All the women fled to Pakistan. 57
At the same time, terror reigned in Kabul. On the eastern outskirts
of the city, the Pol-e-Charki prison became a concentration camp. In The
Black Book of Communism, the situation in the prison is described in
this way:
As Sayyed Abdullah, the director of the prison, explained to the prisoners:
"You're here to be turned into a heap of rubbish." Torture was common;
the worst form entailed live burial of prisoners in the latrines. Hundreds of
prisoners were killed every night, and the dead and dying were buried by
bulldozers. Stalin's method of punishing entire ethnic groups for the ac-