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In 1979, the Red Army occupied Afghanistan, putting
into effect a brutal policy of genocide that took no
account of women and children. Above, a so-called
victory march by the Red Army in Moscow in 1984.

tions of some of its members adopted, leading to the arrest on 15 August
1979 of 300 people from the Hazaras ethnic group who were suspected of
supporting the resistance. "One hundred fifty of them were b buried alive by
the bulldozers, and the rest were doused with gasoline and burned alive."
In September 1979 the prison authorities admitted that 12,000 prisoners
had been eliminated. The director of Pol-e-Charki told anyone who would
listen: "We'll leave only 1 million Afghans alive—that's all we need to
build socialism." 58
All these efforts were directed from Moscow. Indeed, all
Afghanistan's inner turmoil was first planned by the Soviets. They had
incited the Afghani Communists to make the coup, which they then
used as an excuse to invade the country in order to support the so-called
"democratic" regime. Most political historians accept that the motive be-
hind Moscow's plan was regarding Islam as a source of danger to the
Communists.
On December 27, 1979, the Red Army invaded Afghanistan, with
the excuse of supporting the Afghani Communist regime against its
Muslim "opponents." With this, the savagery inflicted on the Afghani