You are now given the glorious task of the economic construction of the
homeland. In the past you have been a long-tested, highly organized and
well-disciplined combat unit. We trust that, on the production and construction front, you will become a highly skilled commando troop in construction
as well. You will act as heroic models, striving on a new front for the happiness
of the revolutionary lives of the future, on behalf of all the people of the country, including yourselves.
You may now put your weapons of combat in reserve and take up the weapons of production and construction. If and when the homeland should have
the need to call upon you, I shall once again order you to take up the weapons
of combat once more to defend the homeland.
Source: Excerpt from Selected Compilation of Materials, 1967, Red Guard Publication. This decree was displayed in the Exhibition Hall of the First Agricultural