Presidents of Afghanistan: Firing Position

This is the conclusion you come to when you become acquainted with the activities of Afghan presidents. Only two out of thirteen of them are still alive. One of the living survived two assassination attempts, and one is still in power. Moreover, only four were not killed and only one of them managed without suffering in the form of assassination attempts, flight from the country or the sight of killed close relatives. Take a look at the table we have compiled.

All Presidents of Afghanistan

And now about each in more detail. More precisely about their groups, it is very easy for them to form in them, characterizing the realities of life in Afghanistan.

Usurper president

The activity of several Afghan kings on moderate liberalization of Afghanistan seems to have led to the emergence of a "democratic" monster. The representative of the Afghan aristocracy, Mohammed Daoud, who, incidentally, received a European education, has long been the prime minister under King Zahir Shah, has overthrown this king, having organized the Afghan Republic and himself the president.

I feel happy when I can light my American cigarettes with Soviet matches.

Muhammad Daud Khan.

In his manner of ruling, the first president of Afghanistan, Daud, was even more like an eastern monarch than the last king. It can be considered a certain likeness of Peter I. He tried to introduce new things, but relied on traditional Afghan values. He became the author of the concept of “Islamic socialism”. It seems that the arbitrariness of the Afghan nobility (which she did not allow herself even under the king) was part of this "socialism." That was the reason for the rebellion led by the underground pro-communist National Democratic Party of Afghanistan. As a book leader and warrior, he refused to run and died during the defense of the presidential palace.

Socialists

After the fall of Daud, the socialists came to power, who were actively supported by the Soviet Union. The first socialist president, according to eyewitnesses, piously believed in the ideals of communism, despised religion. It could well be called the romantic of socialism. Former writer and journalist, President Nur Mohammed Taraki, having gained power, abruptly set about breaking the Afghan way of life, imposing socialist values. For many Afghans, this was tantamount to blasphemy, which, it seems, finally shook Afghanistan. Since the reign of Taraki, there are always illegal armed groups and uncontrolled territories in the country.

It is not surprising that one morning he died of an unknown illness caused by ... pillows laid on his face and held by the mercenaries of his political rival, who became the next president of Afghanistan.

Socialism is socialism, but you need to think about yourself - it seems that President Amin adhered to such a philosophy. In addition to cooperation with the USSR, Amin conducted backstage affairs with the West. Such a president in a neighboring state did not need a union. Therefore, the Soviet special forces in 1979 participated in the seizure of the presidential palace by the opposition part of the PDPA. Amin was killed, but the Soviet paratroopers claim that they found him already mortally wounded.

Babrak Karmal became the model puppet of the USSR. Even some likeness of Comrade Brezhnev. "A fool, a lazy dog ​​and a drunkard all rolled into one," - so called him one Soviet general. Such an inactive ruler, besides not an ethnic Pashtun, that he hid very carefully, since the ideas of Pashtun nationalism in the country are very popular, only worsened the situation in the country. After the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, he was forced to leave him and died in Moscow. His relatives buried the ashes in Afghanistan.

Conciliators

The departure of Shuravi greatly changed the balance of power in the country. Extremists - the "patriots" of faith and country - had nothing to oppose. The following three presidents tried to take the position of centrism, to be softer with people: the socialist values ​​were not forgotten, but the Afghan people were again pulled out.

A particularly powerful ruler of this period was Muhammad Najibullah, who became the ideologist of the new concept, which was called "national reconciliation." A series of meetings were held with the armed opposition, several amnesties took place. In general, much has been done to ensure that Afghanistan remains a country of permanent war.

Extremists

However, the policy of national reconciliation led to the opposite effect. It was perceived as a manifestation of weakness, and extremism of all stripes flourished in Afghanistan even more than before. On the territory of the once united state, several state entities existed at once, and in the captured Kabul, the Taliban avenged former President Najibullah for hard peace. They tied him by a rope to a jeep and dragged him two kilometers along the road. Then the mutilated body hung on the wall of the presidential palace for several days.

Taliban elder Mujadidi was replaced by the leader of the Northern Alliance Rabbani. The second was a field commander for a long time. Their ideas of pan-Islamism, friendship with al-Qaeda eventually led to the fact that the US Army came to Afghanistan. Sadly, even hero warlords are not immune to death. Mujadidi, of course, turned out to be the happiest president of all in this sense, because by that time he was a respectable old man.

But in his old age, Rabbani received a bomb in a turban of a personal suicide bomber from numerous enemies.

New puppets?

Unfortunately, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who seems to be the record holder for the assassination attempts, looks like her. To restore order in the country is very far. Terrorist attacks are frequent even in what seems to be controlled Kabul, and leaving the capital for the president is to expose himself to the threat of assassination.

Ashraf Ghani, who received an American education, worked in American financial institutions, refused the Akhmadzai tribal name, and even preferred to wear European clothes, looks like an especially American protege. It is unlikely that these facts make his figure beloved in the eyes of the Afghan people.

Nevertheless, I would like to wish both: the current and former president of Afghanistan, as well as their long-suffering country of wisdom and good luck. It is unlikely that it paints a country if, on the standard of its leader, it’s fit to write an almost samurai motto: "Become president - be prepared for death."