Visions of Freedom w/ Piero Gleijeses Part 1
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South Africa's Invasion of Angola
South africa invasion would have been successful if cuba had not despatched 36 thousand troops to push the south african defense forces out. How did that escalation come about? And where did cuban troops come from? And how why was cuba's interintervention so decisive on the ground? S leme stat you say, how did the intervention come about? So let's spend a couple of on the south africans. The south afAfrican government, meaning the inner corps that was aware of the covert operation, had been fully united as long as it was a question of sending weapons and military instructor. When it is a question of invading with troops, there is a division
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