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Union of Communists of Dahomey

political party in Benin

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ7886553 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Union of Communists of Dahomey (French: Union des communistes du Dahomey) was a communist party in Benin. UCD was founded in 1976. In 1977 UCD gave birth to the Communist Party of Dahomey.

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The public source identifies “Union of Communists of Dahomey” as political party in Benin. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Union, Communists and Dahomey.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976, 1977—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1977. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Union, Communists and Dahomey providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7886553. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1976 and 1977.

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This entry incorporates text from “Union of Communists of Dahomey” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.