HAFIZULLAH AMIN
So many Afghans thought very differently and resisted Amin’s Government and the Russians, that the Russians pulled out of Afghanistan.
At the time, he was president of a de facto Puppet state of the soviet Union. However, many Afghans paid him no heed, and attacked Russians and their assets in Afghanistan with the object of driving the Russians out which they finally did.
Hafizullah Amin was an Afghan communist politician during the Cold War. Born in Paghman and educated at Kabul University, he started his career as a teacher. After a few years in that occupation, he went to the United States to study. He would visit the United States a second time before moving permanently to Afghanistan and starting his career in radical politics. He ran as a candidate in the 1965 parliamentary election but failed to secure a seat. As the only Khalqist elected to parliament in the 1969 parliamentary election, he increased his standing within the party. He was one of the leading organizers of the April 1978 Saur Revolution which overthrew the government of Mohammad Daoud Khan. In 1979 he named himself president, prime minister, and chairman of the Khalq wing. He has been described as "ruthless" and a "radical Marxist".
