Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Afghanistan ta shaida lokacin tashin hankali na siyasa wanda ya fara da hambarar da Sarki Zahir Shah a shekarar 1973. A wannan lokacin, Afghanistan ta shaida babban ci gaba a cikin girman motsi na kwaminisanci, musamman a cikin rundunar sojan Afghanistan. Wannan ya kai ga juyin juya halin Saur na 1978
, inda membobin Jam'iyyar Demokradiyyar Jama'ar Afghanistan, wani jam'iyyar Marxist-Leninist da Soviet ta goyi baya, suka kwace mulki a cikin wani zubar da jini.