What was the PDPA's political ideology?
Communism
Democratic Socialism
Capitalism
Anarchism
Answer
The PDPA, or People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, was a communist political party that ruled Afghanistan from 1978 to 1992. The party was founded in 1965 by Nur Muhammad Taraki and Babrak Karmal, and it was based on Marxism-Leninism. The PDPA's ideology was a mixture of communism and Islam, and it called for the creation of a socialist state in Afghanistan.
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