Samora Machel was a Mozambican politician and revolutionary who served as the first President of Mozambique from the country's independence in 1975 until his death in a 1986 plane crash that also killed several Mozambican ministers and government officials. He was a socialist in the tradition of Marxism-Leninism.
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Samora Moises Machel (September 29, 1933 - October 19, 1986) was a Mozambican politician and revolutionary who served as the first President of Mozambique from the country's independence in 1975 until his death in the 1986 Mozambican Tupolev Tu-134 plane crash which had killed 34 people, including several Mozambican ministers and government officials. Machel was a socialist in the tradition of Marxism-Leninism.
1. Samora Machel (Wikipedia)
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Samora Moises Machel (September 29, 1933 - October 19, 1986)
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