Battle of Cuito Cuanavale - 1987

This video shows the truth about what happened in late 1987 in South-East Angola. The video says it all, but the SADF/Unita forces seriously crushed the Communist forces of Cuba/MPLA!

Song: Vyster - Lloyd Ross

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Cutio
• Cuanavale
• South
• Africa
• SADF
• Unita
• Border
• War
• Cold
• Angola
• South-West
• Cuba

[MonkeyBoyDrinksVat69]

Great picture used as a backdrop from about 3:30 until 4:40, however it's not SADF, the blokes with the T-55 are Rhodesian Army.

[Trafalgar8766]

@MonkeyBoyDrinksVat69 Yeah Thanks, I knew that already, but I liked the picture and Rhodesia got them from SA anyways.

[azanianlion]

Good video, except General Sanchez was executed for putting Cuba at risk by allowing drug drops to be carried out by drug lords on Cuban territory &,for that reason he was tried for treason against Cuba and executed on the 13 July 1989.

[Trafalgar8766]

@azanianlion He might have done it but the execution was for Angola, they just needed another reason they could use - because they couldn't admit they lost.

[azanianlion]

@Trafalgar8766 sure we gave them a hiding to remember but I doubt very much he was executed for the Angola blunder,in fact he was due to be promoted to commander of the western army which included the capital of Cuba.Whilst doing the normal security clearance for that position it came to their attention that he was involved with drug lords,which meant it gave the USA a moral reason to attack Cuba as they had donepreviously in Panama.

[Trafalgar8766]

@azanianlion Doubt very much?! Cuba was trying to help Africa become Communist and show Cuba's military strength on the World stage and Sanchez was in command of the forces when they failed so drastically - Much more of a reason than a supposed drugs charge (with or without the implied US threat) - Fidel needed another reason to get rid of him rather than admit defeat in Angola.

[Trafalgar8766]

@pedrom41 Get your facts straight - this video (as the title shows) is only about the BATTLE of the Cuito Cuanavale, and the war wasn't 10 years long anyways it lasted from 1966 until 1989. Get YOUR facts right.

[oomblikkies]

Ja, en toe gaan De Klerk en sy luitenante, Meyer en Wessels en maak al die goeie werk van die weermag ongedaan en bied die land op 'n skinkbord aan die vyand.

[azanianlion]

@iredes11van Respect to him

[balsero761]

@etowahman1 "" I agree with this. However, I'm not pretty sure the cuban goverment had no idea what was going on. I was a child in Cuba when Ochoa was executed, but people always thought was unfair...and that were "other " reasons more than drugs. Even nowdays ,people talk about general Ochoa with respect.

[balsero761]

@ukusapillage I like to enter here and watch this videos, I want to hear the other part story. That our gov. has been hidding for years. Do you know something about people chained to the tanks? I read something but wasn't clear. I really think both sides fought fierce, but like always, the claps goes to the leaders. Not the failures, so someone has to pay for it. Anyways, someday the wounds will heal, and freedom will come to my people.

[balsero761]

@ukusapillage However, nowdays, only the high ranked people close to the goverment, or Army officers, talk about the " glorious days " of Angola.People have realized they were used by the goverment. Don't think that people wear their medals or something like that with pride. For almost all cubans that took part in that, is a gray chapter in their lives. Many lives wasted for nothing, but political reasons. Ethiopia is another example. We were there for the wrong reasons, our gov. lied to us.

[balsero761]

@ukusapillage,,I'm from Cuba, and like you,I hate the cuban, but the goverment,not the people. Many of all those Cuban were forced to go there.In Cuba, the service in the Army is obligatory.There are stories of people that were supodsely flying to a military base,and in the air ,they were informed the plane was heading to Angola. The other thing is the brain whashing. In those years, people were so confused, they thought were helping the " the opressed people of Angola and Namibia".

[unroyal]

@submariner200 Sorry buddy, your point is pathetic. The drug issue started with US authorities claim that Cuban territory was being used to pass drugs into the US.

[iredes11van]

My brother was killed in Cuito Cuanavale. He was with the Special Recce.