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November 2018

  • Afghan politics, Afghanistan, Politics, Society

Marx, Engels and Lenin in Pul-e-Charkhi Prison

With all the noise around Marxism and socialism lately, I keep coming back to a story from my own family. Back in the 1980s, someone close to me spent time in Pul-e-Charkhi — the infamous prison outside Kabul. The charge,…

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