Ne Win

Ne Win

Ne Win (Burmese: နေဝင်း; IPA: [nè wɪ́ɰ̃]; 24 May 1911 – 5 December 2002) also known as Shu Maung (Burmese: ရှူမောင်; IPA: [/ʃù màʊ̃̀/]), was a Burmese army general, politician and military commander who served as Prime Minister of Burma from 1958 to 1960 and 1962 to 1974, and also President of Burma from 1962 to 1981. Ne Win was Burma's military dictator during the Socialist Burma period of 1962 to 1988. Ne Win founded the Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP) and overthrew the democratic Union Parliament of U Nu in the 1962 Burmese coup d'état, establishing Burma as a one-party socialist state under the Burmese Way to Socialism ideology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ne Win has received more than 1,000,830 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Ne Win is the 3,413th most popular politician (up from 3,856th in 2019), the 6th most popular biography from Myanmar (Burma) (up from 7th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Burmese Politician.

Ne Win was a general in the Burmese army and was the Prime Minister of Burma from 1962 to 1988. He is most famous for his "Burmese Way to Socialism" which was a series of economic and social reforms that were designed to move Burma from a capitalist economy to a socialist economy.