"I noticed long ago that Amin has the tendency to concentrate power in his own hands but I did not attach any particul…"

"Our homeland's enemies, the enemies of the working class movement all over the world are trying to penetrate into the…"

"Those who boast of friendship with us, they can really be our friend when they respect our independence, our soil and…"

"You are the one who should quit! Because of drink and old age you have taken leave of your senses."

"Comrade Stalin showed us how to build socialism in a backward country: it's painful to begin with, but afterwards eve…"

"Nine months later, however, the Politburo reversed itself, launching a massive invasion of Afghanistan, the consequen…"

"Mengistu had built a confinement ward almost to rival Pol Pot’s in the lunatic asylum of communist politics. Far from…"

"The Khalq’s seizure of power in Kabul was the last of the twentieth-century communist revolutions and demonstrated be…"

"Despite his Soviet connections, prominent Afghans viewed Amin not so much as a communist but rather as an ambitious a…"

"For him delicious flavors dwell In books as in old Muscatel."