Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "The Rise and Fall of Siad Barre and the story of Socialist Somalia | African Biographics" video.

  1. LOL.
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  2.  @okc133  LOL. Somalia's national IQ is on par with Haiti.
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  3. <We should obey the rulers even if they’re oppressive.> How come you didn't do that with your former colonizers? With that kind of thinking, how did you manage to get independence?
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  4. LOL. Sure he was.
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  5. This is his business as Somalis flee for their lives to Kenya to get away from the pirates and warlords.
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  6. Before that, he had a falling out with the USSR.
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  7. But he ran Somalia into the ground.
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  8.  @Milltao3  Siad Barre ran Somalia into the ground. How many countries he supported the liberty of is irrelevant.
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  9.  @okc133  Somalia declined and regressed under his rule especially after falling out with the USSR and losing the Ogaden War to fellow USSR puppet Ethiopia.
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  10. With Soviet backing.
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  11. But before that, he was a KGB puppet. And the CIA supported communists before. Remember Josip Broz of Yugoslavia or Forbes Burnham of Guyana?
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  12.  @lubex3486  Somalia deteriorated under his watch.
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  13. He didn't show Seretse Khama as a dictator.
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  14. I guess losing the Ogaden War to Ethiopia and getting caught in the Cold War crossfire was the beginning of the end for Barre and his socialist experiment. Not even getting US support could save him.
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  15. Too bad Somalia ended up being both.
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