Siad Barre
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Mohammed Siad Barre was a Somali military officer, politician, and revolutionary who served as the third president of Somalia from 21 October 1969 to 26 January 1991.
Official portrait, c. 1970
Barre with Romanian president Nicolae Ceaușescu in 1976
Rural Somali literacy program
Barre and Queen Juliana in 1978
Somali Democratic Republic
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The Somali Democratic Republic was a communist state with a unitary system of government in Somalia that existed from 1969 to 1991.
Siad Barre
…Supreme Revolutionary Council military junta under Barre reconstituted Somalia as a one-party Marxist–Leninist communist state, renamed the country the Somali Democratic Republic and adopted scientific socialism. Barre spoke three languages, English, Somali and Italian. Barre's early rule was characterised by attempts at widespread…
The Somali–Soviet Union friendship and later partnership with the United States enabled Somalia to build the largest mechanised army on the continent.
Somali National Army soldier stands between two captured Ethiopian BTR-60 armored carriers that were disabled in battle.
Somali dictator Siad Barre
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