Nur Muhammad Taraki
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Nur Muhammad Taraki (15 July 1917, or 1913 – 14 September 1979) was the president of the communist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
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- I noticed long ago that Amin has the tendency to concentrate power in his own hands but I did not attach any particular significance to this. However, recently this tendency has become dangerous.
- As quoted in Rodric Braithwaite (2010) Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89, page 65
- Everything will be all right. I know this room. Soldiers used to be quartered here. Now it's our turn.
- Said to his wife in the Presidential Palace, shortly before his assassination, as quoted in Rodric Braithwaite (2010) Afgantsy: The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89, page 67
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- You are the one who should quit! Because of drink and old age you have taken leave of your senses.
- Hafizullah Amin, as quoted in Nabi Misdaq (2006) Afghanistan: Political Frailty and External Interference, page 125
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