1979 homeland revolution in pictures

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Revolutionaries gave flowers and civilian clothes to deserters, while threatening retribution to those who stayed. On 11 December, a dozen officers were shot dead by their own troops at capital’s Lavizan barracks. Fearing further mutinies, many soldiers were returned to their barracks.

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