People's Republic of Benin
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The People's Republic of Benin was a Marxist-Leninist state located in the Gulf of Guinea on the African continent, which became present-day Benin in 1990. The People's Republic was established on 30
Place des Martyrs (Cotonou): Monument commemorating the victims of the attempted coup of 1977.
Mathieu Kérékou
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Mathieu Kérékou was a Beninese politician and revolutionary who served as president of the People's Republic of Benin from 1972 to 1991 and the Republic of Benin from 1996 to 2006.
People's Republic of Benin
…present-day Benin in 1990. The People's Republic was established on 30 November 1975, after the 1972 coup d'état led by Marxist and nationalist general Mathieu Kérékou in the Republic of Dahomey. It was governed under a one-party state led by the People’s Revolutionary Party of Benin, which effectively lasted until 1…
Kérékou in 2006
Kérékou with Romanian leader Nicolae Ceaușescu in 1976
USSR ambassador to Benin Vitaly Agapov presents his letter of credence to Mathieu Kérékou, May 1979.
Kérékou's statue in Kouarfa