Hafizullah Amin

Hafizullah Amin

Hafizullah Amin (Pashto/Dari: حفيظ الله امين;‎ 1 August 1929 – 27 December 1979) was an Afghan communist revolutionary, politician and teacher. He organized the Saur Revolution of 1978 and co-founded the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA), ruling Afghanistan as General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party from September 1979 until his assassination in December 1979.Born in the town of Paghman in Kabul Province, Amin studied at Kabul University and started his career as a teacher before he twice went to the United States to study. During this time, Amin became attracted to Marxism and became involved in radical student movements at the University of Wisconsin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hafizullah Amin has received more than 896,690 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 45 in 2019). Hafizullah Amin is the 913th most popular politician (up from 1,494th in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Afghanistan (up from 10th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Afghan Politician.

Hafizullah Amin was the president of Afghanistan from 1979-1979. He is most famous for being the president of Afghanistan at the time of the Soviet invasion.