Foreign Intervention In Angola.

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Good stuff! If anyone wants an interesting read, check out the book [I]Conflicting Missions: Havana, Washington, and Africa, 1959-1976[/I] by Piero Gleijeses. I have read the book and met the author (he is legally blind by the way). This is a fascinating read into Cuba's actions in Africa and how Washington interpreted such actions. Gleijeses is working on a sequel that covers Cuba's actions in African from 1976 to the 1990s but I an not certain when this will be published.

[Dolf]

Eddie,

Thanks a lot for another great thread!

I've been asking around and as far as Angola is concerned I don't believe any Angolan Awards had been given to Soviet or Cuban (soldiers, advisers, civilians). The country was then in a chaotic situation, almost nothing was working after most of the Portuguese population was forced to leave because of the civilian war. I don't think the Angolan authorities were able to manufacture Military Awards those days! So my guess is that the only Awards for Soviet or Cuban personnel who have been there are those given to them by their own countries.

As for the link you posted, despite the reactionary comments, some of the pictures are interesting.
Nevertheless one must be careful with some of the pictures published those days showing so called Soviets or Cubans!
I have a member of my family who was just a kid those days but joined the MPLA Armed Forces and years later saw his picture that had been published in a English well known newspaper, as if he was a Cuban... :rolleyes:

Matt,

When did you left SA?

I was born in Angola myself and left in August/10 1975, at the age of 19, in the middle of a awful civilian war!
But I guess you weren't born yet at that time, right?

Best,

Dolf