Bezinski gained the upper hand by couching his arguments about foreign policy in electoral terms. Ginski's mamers, from the perspective of character, have two qualities: they are very servile and almost repulsivive. He always refers whats good carter intellectual terms, doing this would cost you. Then there is an other thing, that carater was an anticomist. There is all this rongsentoyou about carter. But he really was a remarkably reactionary anti communist. Carter was closer to brigin to start with.
The second of Dan’s two-part interview with Piero Gleijeses on his book Visions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976–1991. This is the story of Cuba’s military defense of the Angolan government against a US and South Africa-backed effort to overthrow the People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). The future of the entire region was on the line—including the fate of apartheid in South Africa and of Namibia, then a South African colony.
Learn Southern African geography by studying these maps: thedigradio.com/visions-of-freedom-maps
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