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 | | The Communist Party of India (CPI), first “founded: in Tashkent in 1920, but in reality in 1925, when a number of Communist groups united at a conference in India, was virtually smashed by the Meerut Conspiracy Case of 1929. |
 | | The socialists therefore saw in caste oppression both a genuine point whereby common, exploited people could be mobilized, and a point from which the socialists could claim their Indianness and superiority over “Moscow-trained” Communists. |
 | | But revolutionary developments in Afghanistan, especially the government of Taraki, preceded the Soviet invasion, and the period that began with the 1978 revolution (which brought the Taraki regime to power) was the one in Afghan history when social progress was achieved in some measure. |
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