Afghanistan International Workers’ Day Parade | May 1, 1979

Here is incredibly rare footage of the Workers’ Day Parade in front of the Kabul Presidential Palace, which I don’t believe can be found anywhere else (in its entirety) on YouTube. Only a year after the Saur Revolution, you can already see the city of Kabul draped in red banners and the personality cult centered around Nur Mohammad Taraki. Celebrations on May 1 were common in any communist or Eastern Bloc country, and Afghanistan picked up this tradition after the Saur Revolution. By this time in 1979, there was already tension between General Secretary Taraki and his biggest ally, Hafizullah Amin, which would eventually spill over in September, causing Taraki’s assasination and Soviet intervention. -- Interkast is a non-political channel. None of the footage, songs, images or emblems used in these videos are owned by me.