“Now we are proud that the government has moved from the class of the exploiters to the class of the people who were being exploited. And in the great name of the same class, I raise this nation's flag which is a strong symbol of this transfer.”

Speech during the presentation of the new national symbols, October 19, 1978 https://pad.ma/BSI/info.

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