A Conspiracy against the Republic

A Conspiracy against the Republic , 1980 (46:52)

Annotation: About the exhausting days of Afghanistan, which got rid of Hafizullah Amin's rule; attempts of the foreign and internal counterrevolution to destroy achievements of the Afghan people. The events which took place in February of 1980.

Film description: Afghanistan. Muslims pray in the mosque. Debt Prison. The epidemic in the country. Meetings workers. Saur Revolution of 1978. Farmers receive documents on the use of land. Classes liquidation of illiteracy. Afghan-Pakistan border. Training camps for mercenaries, saboteurs. Press conference of Karmal, leader of the country Barbakh. Soviet soldiers on the street talking to locals. City of Kabul. Armed counter-revolutionary terror: the burned-university, school, children are mutilated corpses in the streets. Soviet troops are patrolling the city. Meeting of the Party committees. Magazine counterrevolutionaries. The arrest of the bandits. Interrogation. Distribution of food to the population. The opening of grocery stores. The people welcomed B. Karmal.

Source description 1: A panorama of mountains with snowy tops; a panorama of a town.
A panorama of Kabul, a mosque.
A panorama of Muslims praying in the mosque yard.
A panorama of a man with a boy sitting at stone wall.
Children with luggage are standing.
Newsreel:
The doors of the debtor's prison are opening, people are in the prison.
People are in the street, they are carrying loads.
A panorama of people knocking with hammers.
A panorama of teenagers and children at work.
An ill child is lying.
A panorama of children and adults during epidemic, dusted with insect-powder.
Animation: April 27, 1978. The April revolution in Afghanistan.
People are going; speakers are delivering their speeches; a panorama of mass meeting.
A panorama of chanting people.
A panorama of young people passing with red flags.
People are shouting, applauding, throwing, and burning feudal obligatory bills.
Distribution of lands between the peasants: plots are measured, people are passing by with red flags, applauding.
A peasant is given a document for land use, a panorama of the peasant kissing the paper.
Peasants are being given grain.
A panorama of peasants riddling rice.
A panorama of a smiling man.
Elimination of illiteracy: a woman is writing; lessons; a teacher at the blackboard.
A panorama of former feudals.
A panorama of hostile faces.
The Afghan-Pakistani frontier, a checkpoint at the border, a panorama of crowding people.
American representatives are standing and passing by.
Pakistan: the Americans are passing by; Afghan refugees are sitting.
The White House National Security Aide Zbignev Bzhezinsky is appearing before refugees, of whom the soldiers of fortune are recruited.
A camp for training mercenaries for intervention into Afghanistan; maneuvers; a panorama of learning to treat weapons.
The students hostel of the Jalalabad University burned by Pakistani mercenaries, a panorama of destroyed rooms.
A panorama of burnt rice in barrels.
The Pro-rector of the Jalalabad University is speaking about the bandit raid.
A panorama of a closed school suffered from bandits’ raids.
A panorama of a destroyed classroom.
A leaflet left by the bandits.
Cartoon: photos of the bandit leaders – G. Hikmatyar, S. А. Gailani, S. Madyaddedi, B. Rabbani, H. Amin.

Source description 2: The CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) agent H. Amin, who has killed N.M. Taraki, is passing by.
H. Amin with military men; he is passing by and sitting, he is speaking.
A photo of the leader of Afghan government and party - N. M. Taraki.
Newsreel of the revolution made by Amin:
A car with prisoners is going by, a prisoner is being pushed into the car; killed soldiers are lying; solders are taking the prisoners out from the car;
A photo: the prisoners behind the grating.
1979.
Releasing prisoners from a jail: a gate is opening, people are going out embracing those who meet them, a woman is crying.
The leader of the Afghan revolution Babrak Karmal is speaking at the conference.
A photo of Babrak Karmal and other founders of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan.
A panorama of new members of the Afghanistan administration sitting.
Babrak Karmal at the tribune.
Soviet military aid to the people's government of Afghanistan: a Soviet tank in a city street, soviet soldiers talking with Afghans.
A photo: an American flag and the US President of the USA James Carter; the Prime-Minister of the United Kingdom Margaret Thatcher; Chinese representatives; James Carter, Zbignev Bzhezinsky and Secretary of State Sairus Vens.
James Carter’s appearance on TV.
Animation: February 22, 1980.
Kabul after the counterrevolutionaries’s armed raid: a panorama of cars burning, bodies in the streets.
A panorama of fire fighting.
A destroyed building, people standing near the ruins.
A panorama of broken shopwindows, bullet marks in the windows.
An empty street.
A panorama of destroyed and closed shops, locks at dukhans.
A man is crying.
Dukhan holders are telling as they were forced to close the shops.
A killed man’s body is being carried by; a disfigured corpse is lying, bodies are being carried by.
A panorama of children sitting, children and teenagers are telling how bandits protected themselves against bullets by children.
A panorama of adults and children embracing each other and crying.

Source description 3: Kabul streets; a panorama of a people's government patrol going along the street.
A panorama of party activists pasting up leaflets, distributing newspapers containg the appeal: “The Revolution is in danger”.
A panorama of the outdoor sign at the district party committee.
A panorama of a meeting of the Party committee on the liquidation of the plot.
A member of the district Party committee is making a speech, the deputy secretary of the district Party committee.
Operations to neutralize bandits: a patrol is going, soldiers on a building roof.
The representatives of the people power are agitating people, shouting voice tube.
Slum quarters, where counter-revolutionaries are hiding.
Soldiers are seeking the bandits the help of people.
The gangsters’ property found in hidings: knives, rounds, grenades and other weapons; receivers, cassettes; beards for camouflage; Maoist literature; foreign currency.
A panorama of soldiers dismantling the hiding in a car.
The arrested bandits are being guided, placed into the car.
A meeting of the highest religious authority of the country – the Counsel of Ulams.
The head of the religious community of the city of Gerat is speaking.

Source description 4: The Jalalabad prison yard, the prisoned bandits are standing in the yard; they are speaking about their activity.
A panorama of Pakistani diversionists arrested in the streets of Kabul being guided.
A panorama of currency and false documents, their withdrawal from diversionists.
A panorama of diversionists’ training in Pakistan.
American instructors are getting out of helicopter, greeting the Pakistanis, passing by, talking with Afghan refugees.
Chinese instructors are getting out of helicopter; passing by, talking with Pakistanis.
A party agitator is appearing in a square, listeners.
A panorama of an engineer speaking.
A meeting in the street.
Food shops are being open in Kabul; products in shops – sale of bread.
People in the street.
Aid to Afghanistan from other countries.

Source description 5: The dispensation of flour and vegetable oils in the poorest district of Kabul.
Trucks with bread are going along the highway in the mountains.
The Afghan-Pakistani border.
A bridge destroyed by bandits.
A soviet solder is telling about bridge explosion by bandits with the use of English explosives.
A panorama of a car passing along the bridge.
Afghan soldiers are going by.
An Afghan officer is speaking and showing an American grenade with some poisonous substance.
A press conference in Kabul, an officer is speaking.
A panorama of American weapon supplied to bandits.
A panorama of the guard mount at a monument.
Reportage from Kabul: people in the street decorating a wedding car.
A panorama of a house under construction.
The opening of the first All-Afghan agricultural conference: people are greeting the leader of the People’s Democratic party of Afghanistan, Chairman of the Revolutionary Counsel, Head of the Government of the republic Babrak Karmal.
Babrak Karmal is opening the conference, greeting the delegates, the audience are applauding.
Solders near buses are chanting.

Directors: Sveshnikova I.

Operators: Minaev A.

Script writers: Abelev M., Losev S.

Announcer: Tatarskiy V.

Text writers: Sveshnikova I., Timofeev I.