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but also experienced lengthy periods of unemployment, and in 1927 the family relocated to
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had no orders to suppress with force the growing tide of anti-government protest that had taken hold in the country triggered a sequence of events which would lead to the demise of the stand-alone
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between 1965 and 1967, led to a degree in
Military Sciences. After his return from Moscow he was appointed "Deputy Head of the LSK/LV and Chief of Staff", a position he held till 1972.
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