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Cuba and Angola The War for Freedom [Greek]

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143 Pages

Edition: 1

Year: 2018

Publisher: Diethnes Vima

ISBN: 9786185130114

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Cuba and Angola The War for Freedom [Greek]

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Beginning in 1975 an epic battle was waged for the future of southern Africa. The Angolan people had just thrown off 500 years of Portuguese colonial brutality. Now South Africa’s white supremacist regime, spurred by Washington, had invaded Angola. Its goal: to impose a government beholden to Pretoria and imperialism. ...

“When we face new and unexpected challenges we will always be able to recall the epic of Angola with gratitude. Without Angola we would not be as strong as we are today.” —Raúl Castro, May 1991

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