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" "Let me conclude by urging you strongly, comrades, to couple your studies and knowledge with action; find good, clean and pious comrades. You should not only be an example of political, social and moral piety in the army but throughout the country so that everyone will say that the Khalqis are truly honorable and trust worthy people to be proud of. Our comrades set such an example even before the revolution... Before the revolution, whoever wanted to punish one of our comrades would accuse him of being a Khalqi, for he had good morals and would not take bribes. It was on the basis of this piety, that is political and social piety, that we took over power.
Nur Muhammad Taraki (15 July 1917 – 8 or 9 October 1979) was General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan, who served as the leader of the communist Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.
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