Afghanistan the Hard Road to Peace

Afghanistan. The city of Kabul. Dalkush Palace. General Secretary of the Central Committee of the PDPA, Chairman of the Revolutionary Council Najib meets with representatives of the people, speaks (synchronously in one of the official languages of Afghanistan). Military patrol on the streets of the city. Dzhangalak car repair plant. Engine repair. Interview with the chairman of the trade union organization G. Gaus (synchronously). Street trade. A doctor treats a patient in the square. Soviet doctors receive and examine patients. Institute of Eye Diseases. Interview with the chief physician of the Institute, Dr. Vahedi (synchronously). Dr. T. Whittle from the USA gives interviews (synchronously in English). Examination of the wounded boy. The patrol is checking cars. Soviet sapper soldiers are looking for mines. The movement of a column of cars in the mountains. Afghan army guard post. The list of the dead. Shot through KAMAZ. The Minister of Trade in the store, talking with customers. Production processes at the Sabar confectionery factory. Vice-President of the joint-stock company K. Keremi at work, at home with his family, gives interviews (synchronously). Market. Sale of vegetables, fruits, food. Peasants take measurements of the land, cut plots in the province of Laghman, dance. The chairman of the cooperative of the village of Husein-Khel talks with nomadic pastoralists. Life of the villagers. Seed distribution and sowing in the cooperative. Afghan Armed Forces soldiers exercise. War Council at Army Headquarters. Najib rewards Soviet soldiers. Seeing off Soviet tanks and soldiers. Arrested spooks. The blown up hotel "Kabul". The wounded. The funeral of the victims. The mother of the murdered sons says (synchronously). Mullah prays, reads a sermon. Former dushman gives interviews (synchronously). Camel caravan movement. Minister for Nationalities and Tribes, poet S. Laek talks with the leaders of the tribes (synchronously). The tribal leaders thank the Soviet soldiers. Interview with the Pashtun statesman F. Mumand (synchronously). Council of the Hazara Society (synchronously).

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1987