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Babrak Karmal

1929 - 1996

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Babrak Karmal (Dari/Pashto: ببرک کارمل; born Sultan Hussein; 6 January 1929 – 1 or 3 December 1996) was an Afghan communist revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Afghanistan, serving in the post of general secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan from 1979 to 1986. Karmal attended Kabul University and developed openly leftist views there, having been introduced to Marxism by Mir Akbar Khyber during his imprisonment for activities deemed too radical by the government. He became a founding member of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) and eventually became the leader of the Parcham faction when the PDPA split in 1967, with their ideological nemesis being the Khalq faction. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Babrak Karmal has received more than 909,387 page views. His biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Babrak Karmal is the 1,908th most popular politician (down from 1,562nd in 2019), the 16th most popular biography from Afghanistan (up from 17th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Afghan Politician.

Babrak Karmal was most famous for his role in the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Babrak Karmal ranks 1,908 out of 19,576. Before him are Alexander Jagiellon, Al-Adil I, Alfonso VIII of Castile, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, Zhengde Emperor, and Tomoe Gozen. After him are Andrey Vyshinsky, Joko Widodo, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Ptolemy XI Alexander II, Pescennius Niger, and Alexios II Komnenos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Babrak Karmal ranks 38. Before him are Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Rudolf Mössbauer, Lata Mangeshkar, Chet Baker, Hafizullah Amin, and Zdzisław Beksiński. After him are Ursula K. Le Guin, Lennart Meri, Graham Hill, Richard E. Taylor, Bruno Cremer, and Milorad Pavić. Among people deceased in 1996, Babrak Karmal ranks 19. Before him are Frank Whittle, Tadeusz Reichstein, René Lacoste, Paul Erdős, Lars Ahlfors, and Silvio Piola. After him are Gene Kelly, Adolf Galland, Sergiu Celibidache, Joan Clarke, Marcel Carné, and Magda Schneider.

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In Afghanistan

Among people born in Afghanistan, Babrak Karmal ranks 16 out of 177. Before him are Jamāl al-Dīn al-Afghānī (1837), Mohammed Zahir Shah (1914), Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953), Muhammad of Ghor (1160), Hafizullah Amin (1929), and Amanullah Khan (1892). After him are Burhanuddin Rabbani (1940), Mohammed Daoud Khan (1909), Kamāl ud-Dīn Behzād (1450), Nur Muhammad Taraki (1917), Moinuddin Chishti (1142), and Hibatullah Akhundzada (1961).

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Among POLITICIANS In Afghanistan

Among politicians born in Afghanistan, Babrak Karmal ranks 10. Before him are Mahmud of Ghazni (971), Mohammed Zahir Shah (1914), Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953), Muhammad of Ghor (1160), Hafizullah Amin (1929), and Amanullah Khan (1892). After him are Burhanuddin Rabbani (1940), Mohammed Daoud Khan (1909), Nur Muhammad Taraki (1917), Moinuddin Chishti (1142), Hibatullah Akhundzada (1961), and Ashraf Ghani (1949).

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