Key facts
- Regional secretary
- Amin al-Hafiz , Nureddin al-Atassi
- Preceded by
- Muhammad az-Zubi
- Succeeded by
- Jaber Bajbouj
- Born
- 1926 ( 1926 ) , Dweir Baabda , Alawite State, Syria
- Died
- 19 August 1993 (1993-08-19) (aged 66–67), Mezzeh prison , Damascus, Syria
- Party
- Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party
- Other political affiliations
- Ba'ath Party (1947–1966), Syrian Social Nationalist Party
- Allegiance
- First Syrian Republic (1946–1950), Second Syrian Republic (1950–1958), United Arab Republic (1958–1961), Second Syrian Republic (1961–1963), Ba'athist Syria (1963–1970)
- Branch service
- Syrian Arab Army
- Years of service
- 1946–1970
- Rank
- Major General
- Battles wars
- 1948 Arab–Israeli War Six-Day War War of Attrition Black September
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Syria
- Place of birth
- Dweir Baabda
- Place of death
- Mezzeh prison
- Occupation
- military personnel
- Educated at
- Homs Military Academy
- Political party
- Ba'ath Party
- Languages spoken
- Arabic
- Movement
- far-left politics
- Conflict
- 1948 Arab–Israeli War
- Military branch
- Syrian Army
- Military rank
- major general
- Image
- General Salah Jadid.jpg
- Residence
- Mezzeh prison
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- Salah Jadid
- date of birth
- 1926-01-01
- date of death
- 1993-08-19
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- صلاح جديد
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- place of detention
- Mezzeh prison
- start of work period
- 1946-00-00
- end of work period
- 1970-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Salah Jadid (Arabic: صلاح جديد, romanized: Ṣalāḥ Jadīd; 1926 – 19 August 1993) was a Syrian military officer and politician who was the leader of the far-left bloc of the Syrian Regional Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, "head of state" and the de facto leader of Ba'athist Syria from 1966 until 1970, when he was ousted by Hafez al-Assad's Corrective Revolution.
Jadid came to power after a coup in 1966. Although he did not rule directly, preferring to remain in the shadows, he wielded all real power in Syria through his allies in key positions of power. Salah Jadid had an open passion for Qutriyun (Regionalist Ba'athism), communism and the Soviet model of government: In just four years in power, he built a totalitarian neo-Ba’athist regime, sometimes called "neo-Marxist". His imposition of radical socialist ideology, brutal repression, and anti-religious policies alienated almost all sectors of Syrian society. His foreign policy alienated most of Syria's potential allies in the Arab world and contributed to the start of the Six-Day War. Salah Jadid was overthrown by his former colleague Hafez al-Assad in 1970 in the so-called "Corrective Revolution".
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