Episode 8. Seizure of power. President assassinated and secretly buried

Описание: Hafizullah Amin was elected General Secretary of the Central Committee of the PDPA. He also became the prime minister of the country. However, this decision was kept secret from the general public.

It was officially announced that the plenum granted Taraki's request, in which he said that due to health reasons he could not perform party and state duties.

Taraki was already dead and buried by that time.
Amin said nothing about the death of "his teacher" to his Soviet sponsors.

Brezhnev nevertheless congratulated Hafizulu Amin on his "election" to a high post in the party and the state.
But Andropov (Chairman of the KGB of the USSR) did not know how to forgive. Or forget. The very next day, he began to prepare an operation to remove Amin.

Episode of a global political documentary project
about the history of the wars in Afghanistan.

Summary of the episode:

September-October 1978 Election of Amin General Secretary of the Central Committee of the PDPA.
Andropov begins an operation to eliminate Amin.
Taraki in prison.
Accusations of the Soviet ambassador in organizing the assassination attempt on Amin.
Murder of Nur Muhammed Taraki.