Socialist Comoros, officially the Comorian State, was a communist state between 1975 and 1978 under the rule of the Democratic Rally of the Comorian People. This period began on August 3, 1975, less than a month after Comoros gained independence from France, when Soilih and Said Mohamed Jaffar, whose adherents were barely armed, hired French mercenary Bob Denard to overthrow Ahmed Abdallah. Soilih officially became President of the revolutionary council in January 1976. He acquired extensive powers under the terms of a new constitution and implemented socialist economic policies. This period would formally come to an end when Soilih was ousted and killed in a coup by French mercenaries, which reinstalled the former President Ahmed Abdallah.
