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DEATH TO COMMUNISTS
DEATH TO MPLA

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CONNECTION

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I grew up under injustice
and the absence of freedom.

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Not mine. Somebody else's.

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And my mother whispered in my ear,

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"Son, you must always stand
with those who suffer".

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I unconditionally positioned
myself on the side of the...

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of the MPLA.

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We had a popular army.
People armed themselves.

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You, me, anyone.

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And at that time, in 1975,
I was in that fight

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when I met Kapuściński, Ricardo.

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- [Artur] He loved that atmosphere.

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Especially that of the suburbs
and the musseques.

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The biggest support for the MPLA

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came from the neighborhoods
and the musseques.

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MPLA's activists were heavily armed
in the neighborhoods,

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and when we entered
we felt at home,

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totally safe.

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YOU'RE DEAD,
SOCIALIST REPORTER

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Do you know when you're
living on the edge

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and your life is no longer
worth a great deal?

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It's much easier to make friends.
We became friends.

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A friendship that's only possible
when you are totally hopeless.

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- [Artur] Kapuściński suffered
the reporter's insanity that takes you

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to places which could be the last...
But you go.

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And he went.

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The MPLA had the support of more
than 90% of the Angolan people.

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Each citizen turned
a defender of his homeland.

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Women, children,

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old people, the sick... Everyone.

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Those from FNLA and UNITA
were professional assassins.

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They murdered peasant towns
of northern Angola

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in cold blood.

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When was the last time you were here?

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Since '75.
I never came back.

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And what do you feel?

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Maybe a little anguish.

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- [Artur] What I saw, what I witnessed
on this road was maybe

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the most infernal image
I've ever seen in my life.

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Imagine several kilometers of road
scattered with corpses.

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About 40 or 50 km.

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We got out of the car and ran
to check if there was any child alive.

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But they were all dead.

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Mothers and children killed
by the same shot.

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I lost peace forever.

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Right here on this road.

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I was aware they were going
to massacre us here,

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it was almost like a death foretold.

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Easy. Easy.

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- [Artur] I was a journalist

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and a fighter at the same time.

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I had to...

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shoot.

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That's not worthy of a journalist,
but I was a fighter too.

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I'm aware I broke

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my professional code.

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And not only I broke it,
but also torpedoed it.

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Do you remember if you killed someone?

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I hope not.
Whoever it was.

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Not even the cruelest assassin.

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No. I hope not.

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White man...

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- [Luis] It was very weird
he was there,

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a lonely Polish reporter...

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Why a Polish man?

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He shook my hand vigorously.

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He wasn't looking for friends.

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He was looking
for people with authority

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who could take him
to the key points of the war.

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Come on, guys, you help us?

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- [Luis] Carlota had such a charisma

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that from the beginning
was intimately tied

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to the guarantee of victory.

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She was a very arrogant guerrilla,
very determined,

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with her Kalashnikov...

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She had her own project of a nation.

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And she was very concerned
about children,

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about how children
would be educated in Angola

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in the foreseeable future.

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- [Luis] Kapuściński asked me,

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"Are you scared?"

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And I said, "The further we go,
the greater will be the danger".

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And he smiled at me and said,

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"When the shots start,
fear disappears".

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First, the vision.
Then, the smell.

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We saw corpses

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of soldiers and guerrillas.

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They were about to burst,
they were all swollen.

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Carlota said
that could cause a plague,

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that it was dangerous
for the health of the children

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who were playing nearby.

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Kapuściński also helped

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to spray the bodies with petrol.

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Then Carlota,

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with her machine gun
and Commander Toni

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fired to set them on fire.

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- [Luis] Silence took over us

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when the car started.

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We were afraid
of what could happen

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because it was a battlefront.

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There were thick dark clouds
in the night sky.

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- [Recording of Luis] The victories of
the revolutionary war

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come at a high price:

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Camarada Carlota,

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who we had just interviewed
at the Balombo's front.

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Less than 24 hours later,
Carlota dropped dead.

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- [Present-day Luis] Kapuściński said,

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"We should have insisted
until the end".

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Feelings of guilt increased.

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Kapuściński cried,

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I had already cried at the hotel.

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And I said to Kapuściński,

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"Carlota has died,
they're going to lose the war".

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And Kapuściński replied,
"Morally, I think so".

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- [Luis] I still miss her.

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- [Soldiers] The struggle continues!

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Victory is certain!

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- [Farusco] Joaquim António
Lopes Farrusco.

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I was born in Portugal.

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The first image I have

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is the one that changed my life.

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I remember it as if it was today.

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It was a small child,

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with very ripped, very old,
very dirty clothes.

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He shouted, "Give me a coin!
Give me bread!"

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I got sad and I said to myself,

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"Here they're in the same situation
I was in my country".

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That barefoot boy reminded me

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of my adolescence.

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I didn't come to defend anyone,

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I probably came to oppress, right?

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I was a commando,
from the special forces.

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I was 24.

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It wasn't very difficult for me

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to take a single side:

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the side of the most disadvantaged.

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It was very difficult
to survive in that front.

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A very broad front.

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I had nothing
except a handful of guerrillas

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and the good will of
MPLA's supporters, the people.

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Kapuściński talked to me
for a few hours.

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And we talked about my son
who, by life's paradoxes,

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ended up being killed by UNI TA.

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He was simply killed
because I'm General Farrusco,

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and they knew
who General Farrusco was.

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It was revenge.

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Many parents lost their children.

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I wasn't the only one.

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I'm heading there,
with the AK, fighting.

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I think, "Well, here I have
a few minutes left, let's..."

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let's fight to death
with those guys".

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I'm already dead.

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<i>- [Farusco] The stream of blood
was huge.</i>

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<i>I heard, but I couldn't see.</i>

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And my subconscious told me,

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"Careful, calm down,
there's no problem, all will be fine".

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There was a second voice
inside me that gave me...

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some life.

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When the South Africans arrived,
I got stuck there.

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In the hospital.

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It was an unequal fight.

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The South African artillery,
the South African armour,

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the helicopters' machine guns...

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And even so, they resisted
fighting for four hours.

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Nearly all of those
who resisted there died.

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It was a massacre.
That was a massacre.

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Kapuściński left Luanda to come
and see what was happening.

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To tell the world
that South African forces

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were invading
the Angolan territory.

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The world denied it.

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I think this was his mission.

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A mission that led him to me,
to the south of Angola.

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It was a rather
distressing conversation

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because that day,
we knew we were going to lose.

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We were living
the last days of our lives.

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Because they were going
to get in shortly.

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As soon as I told him to leave,

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he replied, "No, I'll stay with you",

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because I don't intend to yield
on my place by an invading army.

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This is my mission.

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I'll stay with you
and I'll send my last news...

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That's what he said to me.

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The CIA, yes,
the CI A organized everything.

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The CI A against Angola.

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South African troops invaded
Southern Angola, the central plateau.

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They took Benguela,
Lobito and continued.

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We were besieged in Luanda.

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Ricardo always said, "It's racism
spread all around Africa".

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I f these guys win, we're going to have
an apartheid all over Africa".

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That's what he thought.

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The MPLA was alone,
MPLA forces were alone.

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Soviets abandoned us.

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The Camarada President
had to ask for help to Cuba.

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And Camarada Fidel didn't hesitate,
he didn't wait for Kremlin's orders.

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We were certain that either

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we won the battle of information
or they would destroy us.

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And the MPLA would never take power.

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He, knowing that it was
a large-scale operation,

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had doubts about whether
he should send the telex or not.

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We were reporters and we gave
our lives for our job.

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Certainly, Ricardo became

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a fighter of our cause,
in his own way. Certainly.

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SEND

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- [Artur] Kapuściński and I
went to the airport.

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And when I saw those Cubans
and those weapons arriving

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I thought we still had
some chance of winning.

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- [Kissinger] If the Soviet Union
and Cuban military forces

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continue actions such as Angola,

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we will without any questions resist.

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- [Castro] Because they had
everything planned

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in order to take over Angola
before November 11th.

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We're not looking for oil,
diamonds or any material interest.

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We're fulfilling
an elementary internationalist duty

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when we're helping
the people of Angola.

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- [Announcer] The Central Committee
of the MPLA

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solemnly proclaims

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before Africa and the whole world,
the independence of Angola.

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- [Artur] It was the
happiest day of my life.

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This Africa being born in Angola

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was an Africa without neocolonialism,

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the Africa of a complete
and authentic liberation.

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Kapuściński and I went to have
a drink of Carta Blanca rum

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to celebrate it.
A small celebration.

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We hugged.

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We were very happy.

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Victory is certain!
Victory is certain!

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In the wars against South Africans,

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we lost many
of our best children.

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But justice was done.
We had to be there.

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We couldn't let them kill us
without defending ourselves.

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It was worth it.
I'm an accomplished person.

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I put a stone in the building
of this nation called Angola.

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We won the battle that led
our country to independence.

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But on the way,
all my ideals were destroyed.

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I'm the big loser.
Where is the egalitarian society?

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Where are my brothers without hunger?

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And socialism?

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And revolution?