One of the fundamental preconditions of successful socialist construction is to ensure the people's readiness to defend themselves from the ravages of probable regional or global wars on the basis of the balance of forces generating from the basic contradictions of our epoch.


As quoted in Edmund J. Keller (1991) Revolutionary Ethiopia: From Empire to People's Republic, Indiana University Press, p. 212

Mengistu Haile Mariam Quotes

One of the fundamental preconditions of successful socialist construction is to ensure the people's readiness to defend themselves from the ravages...

One of the fundamental preconditions of successful socialist construction is to ensure the people's readiness to defend themselves from the ravages...

One of the fundamental preconditions of successful socialist construction is to ensure the people's readiness to defend themselves from the ravages...

One of the fundamental preconditions of successful socialist construction is to ensure the people's readiness to defend themselves from the ravages...