People's Republic of Benin

The People's Republic of Benin (French République populaire du Bénin ) was from 1972 a socialist state ( himself a " communist " characteristic ) on the Gulf of Guinea on the African continent. It was founded as a Republican successor state of the Republic of Dahomey, and the predecessor state of today's Republic of Benin.

The People's Republic of Benin was officially proclaimed on 30 November 1975 as a democratic republic, 15 years after gaining independence from France. At the same time Dahomey was renamed Benin, although there was the former Kingdom of Benin in the area of present-day Nigeria. The state was continuously ruled by Mathieu Kérékou and its people Revolutionary Party. The state remained until March 1, 1990 consist, as the newly formed Constitution came into force, the Marxism -Leninism had been abolished as state doctrine in the year 1989.