Context: In the 1970s, Cuba basically looked at Africa and said “Time to export communism”. They picked Angola, sent over 50,000 troops, fought South Africa, CIA-backed rebels, and probably every mosquito in the southern hemisphere, all to make sure their ideology would triumph.
Fast forward a bit: the MPLA wins the conflict… and then immediately goes, “Yeah so… about that Marxism thing… we’re more into capitalism now.” Cuba spent 16 years fighting for communism in a country that dropped communism faster than a trial Netflix subscription.
And here’s the biggest plot twist:
I only exist because of this geopolitical clown show. My mother, who is Angolan herself, took one look at the civil war and said “oh hell nah” and fled to Brazil, who was the first country to recognize Angolan independence and it was distributing Brazilian nationality like candy to refugees from Angola in that period, and years later boom, I spawned.
So shoutout to Fidel Castro, the CIA, South Africa, and Cold War chaos in general… for accidentally crafting my character build.
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a south african border war meme?? in this economy???
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womp womp
Context: In the 1970s, Cuba basically looked at Africa and said “Time to export communism”. They picked Angola, sent over 50,000 troops, fought South Africa, CIA-backed rebels, and probably every mosquito in the southern hemisphere, all to make sure their ideology would triumph.
Fast forward a bit: the MPLA wins the conflict… and then immediately goes, “Yeah so… about that Marxism thing… we’re more into capitalism now.” Cuba spent 16 years fighting for communism in a country that dropped communism faster than a trial Netflix subscription.
And here’s the biggest plot twist:
I only exist because of this geopolitical clown show. My mother, who is Angolan herself, took one look at the civil war and said “oh hell nah” and fled to Brazil, who was the first country to recognize Angolan independence and it was distributing Brazilian nationality like candy to refugees from Angola in that period, and years later boom, I spawned.
So shoutout to Fidel Castro, the CIA, South Africa, and Cold War chaos in general… for accidentally crafting my character build.
a south african border war meme?? in this economy???
hell yeah