This vigorous effort to correct the errors of the past and place the country's fortunes on a firm footing assumed a more specific ideological orientation on the first anniversary of the coup (October 1970), when General Siyad proclaimed that Somalia would henceforth be dedicated to Scientific Socialism. This choice of direction, already foreshadowed in the retrospective transformation of the coup into a Revolution (Ka'an in Somali) reflected the army's growing dependence on Russian equipment and advisers in contrast to the complementary connexion of the police force with America and the West.

I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Som…, loc. 512