I don’t know the specifics but I’m pretty sure the support from the USSR was done at some point and then stopped, the Cuban backed side is the real ML one, there’s a really cool video where Fidel talks about their support for the Angolan cause.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I was reading Thomas Sankara’s perspective on this recently actually - he made a passing reference to how after the boers where kicked out of Angola lots of opportunistic factions scrambled to seize power, and he gave examples of groups in Angola who claimed to be socialist/marxist but were actually just people looking to enrich themselves at other peoples expense and who had ties to colonial powers.
He was talking about it in a way that he wanted to avoid that happening in his own country, which ended up happening and lead to his death in a coup so man was probably onto something.
I think its just power vaccum and extreme poverty that does this,
I love the wild range of 2k - 70k
Every figure of “victims of communism” on Wikipedia.
Dont you know, one trillion people executed by cuba and the soviet union. Sorry if this isnt the point here. Its how i read it. :)
Fidel Castro confiscated my underwear and Joseph Stalin banned me from brushing my teeth. I am a Victim of Communism™ please send $10 million to 1776 Manifest Destiny Boulevard in Langley, Virginia so I can defeat the Chinese government and rescue all its oppressed billionaires.
Neat! ;)
