People's Republic of Mozambique

The People's Republic of Mozambique (Portuguese República Popular de Moçambique ), was a Marxist -oriented government and existed on 25 June 1975 to 1 December 1990 as the successor state of the Portuguese Overseas Province of Mozambique. Today, it is the Republic of Mozambique.

History

After the final independence from Portugal in 1975, the People's Republic of Mozambique committed shortly afterwards under the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique ( " Frelimo ", which was led by President Samora Moises Machel ) brutal in the so-called Mozambican civil war with the Mozambique National Resistance ( " Renamo " ) - a conservative anti-communist guerrilla movement initially funded by Rhodesia now Zimbabwe, whose financial help and support but was later replaced in the group by South Africa.

The People's Republic of Mozambique had close relations with the People's Republic of Angola, with the German Democratic Republic (GDR ) and the Soviet Union, who were all communist states of the Eastern bloc in the world at that time. The People's Republic of Mozambique was also an observer of the CMEA (acronym for " Council for Mutual Economic Assistance "), which was an economic organization of all Communist states.