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Ahmed Ben Bella

"From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so."

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"From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so."

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Akiroq Brost

"The way the Army does things is sometimes a little strange."

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Akiroq Brost

"Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia."

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Akiroq Brost

"The Army was my bread and butter."

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Akiroq Brost

"With this announcement today, the Army has made it clear what we have known all along - that Fort Riley is truly the crown jewel of the United States Army."

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Akiroq Brost

"I've been extremely lucky having been in the army when I was a boy of fourteen."

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Akiroq Brost

"Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels."

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Akiroq Brost

"As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants."

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Akiroq Brost

"If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army."

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Akiroq Brost

"We lived on the Key West Army Base. Key West for me was a tropical island paradise."

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Akiroq Brost

"I joined the Army and was sent to the MIT radiation laboratory after a few months of introduction to electromagnetic wave theory in a special course, given for Army personnel at the University of Chicago."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"My life has been a bit special, this is true. I participated in the liberation of my country. I was one of the organisers of its struggle for liberation. I likewise actively participated in all the struggles for liberation."

Life

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"Colonialism is known in its primitive form, that is to say, by the permanent settling of repressive foreign powers, with an army, services, policies. This phase has known cruel colonial occupations which have lasted 300 years in Indonesia."

Army

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"Those who are leftists, once in power, are not different from other parties."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"It's with them that we have constituted a liberation front and brought our logistic support to armies to help their countries come out of colonialism and establish a national internal regime."

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"Yes, I am Algerian of Moroccan origin through my parents, but all my life is Algeria. I was born there."

Life

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"From their point of view, I had gone too far. I had to disappear. That is to say, if the Algerian army had not overthrown me, others would have done so."

Army

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Ahmed Ben Bella
"The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France."

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