Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Kwaminisanci a karkashin jagorancin Nur Muhammad Taraki sun kwace mulki a Afghanistan
a ranar 27 ga Afrilu, 1978. Sabuwar gwamnatin - ta rarrabu tsakanin bangaren Khalq mai tsattsauran ra'ayi na Taraki da kuma Parcham mai matsakaici - ta sanya hannu kan yarjejeniyar abota da Tarayyar Soviet a watan Disamba na wannan shekarar. Kokarin Taraki na inganta ilimin duniya da sake rarraba ƙasa ya kasance tare da kashe-kashen jama'a (gami da shugabannin addinai masu ra'ayin mazan jiya da yawa) da zalunci na siyasa wanda ba a taɓa gani ba a tarihin Afghanistan, wanda ya haifar da tawaye daga 'yan tawayen mujahideen.