“Only in a socialist system are the interests of the individual, the state and the collective at one. That is why only a socialist constitution can encourage the citizens to fulfill enthusiastically their duties to the society and the fatherland.”

—  Ho Chi Minh

"Report on the Draft Amended Constitution", (December 18, 1959)
1950's

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