Yemen's Forgotten Soviet Socialist Experiment: Aden 1967-1990

Before Yemen's unification in 1990, the southern port city of Aden was the capital of the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen — the Arab world's only Marxist state. This episode explores how a motley coalition of leftist guerrillas, trade unionists, and exiled nationalists built a Soviet-aligned republic on the Arabian Peninsula's southern edge. We trace the violent struggle against British colonial rule, the bloody intra-leftist purges of 1986, and the bizarre cultural contradictions of a state that banned qat while promoting women's literacy and enforced secularism. Featuring the National Liberation Front, the port of Mukalla, the Aden military parade ground, and the ghost of a lost socialist dream.

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