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Group: Vakataka dynasty, Vatsagulma branch
People: Leonid Brezhnev
Topic: Angolan War of Independence
Location: Mount Lu Jiangxi (Kiangsi) China

Angolan War of Independence

Years: 1961 - 1976

Angolan Marxists and other radicals grouped in the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) begin guerrilla attacks on Portuguese infrastructure.

With extensive military assistance from Cuba, the MPLA is able to outmaneuver two rival organizations and establish control of Luanda in time for independence on November 11, 1975.

Civil war between the MPLA government and the anti-communist UNITA is to continue on-and-off until 2002, with the killing of UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi.

"History should be taught as the rise of civilization, and not as the history of this nation or that. It should be taught from the point of view of mankind as a whole, and not with undue emphasis on one's own country. Children should learn that every country has committed crimes and that most crimes were blunders. They should learn how mass hysteria can drive a whole nation into folly and into persecution of the few who are not swept away by the prevailing madness."

—Bertrand Russell, On Education (1926)