Who started cultivating the cult of personality around Taraki?
Hafizullah Amin
Babrak Karmal
Taraki Himself
His Journalist Friends
Answer
Amin was the prime minister and deputy president under Taraki, and he started cultivating the cult of personality around Taraki. Amin did this in order to consolidate his own power base, and to remove any potential threats to his leadership. He also began to distance himself from Taraki, and to portray himself as the more popular and charismatic leader.
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