Bresnev went with angola as if it were a sorid. Succes and the cubans learnti've learned how to deal with servitude. The soviets don't receive any logistic support by sovagr for than two months. At the same time, the foreign administration has decided to freeze the salto negotiations. Bresnev colls to the congress of the colonist party. He as to go with a victory, as he cannot go with salt.
Part one 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.
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