Pen Sovan, sometimes also spelt Pen Sovann (Khmer: ប៉ែន សុវណ្ណ, born April 15, 1936 in Chan Teap Village, Tram Prak, Takéo, Cambodia) was the first Prime Minister of the Hanoi-backed People's Republic of Kampuchea. He served from June 27, 1981 until December 5, 1981. And he was Secretary General of Kampuchean People's Revolutionary Party (KPRP, French acronym 'PRPK') from 1979 to 5 December 1981 . The KPRP was originally a Marxist-Leninist party.
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“Prove that ever I lose more blood with love than I will get again with drinking, pick out mine eyes with a ballad-maker’s pen and hang me up at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of blind Cupid.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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