Although Gode remained in Somali hands at the end of the Ogaden War. Ethiopian units under Brigadier-General Demisse Bulto, commander of the First Revolutionary Army, recovered Gode as part of Operation Lash by November 1980, Soviet advisors and Cuban troops used the city as one of its three bases to successfully clear the rest of eastern Ethiopia of Somali troops by 3 December. However, by this point many in the Somali army joined the liberation front (WSLF) and the conflict continued, albeit without international attention.