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University Press. Welcome to the dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver,

and a broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. What do we learn about the Cold War when we look

beyond the superpower arms race and detente, and instead examine the third world and quote

the events in those areas where the Cold War was actually being waged, where it was hot.

One such place was Southern Africa, and Angola in particular.

Today's episode is part one of my interview with the historian of foreign policy,

Pietro Grieces, on his book, Visions of Freedom, Havana, Washington, Pretoria,

and the struggle for Southern Africa, 1976 to 1991. Visions of Freedom tells the incredible story

of Cuba deploying a massive military and social aid mission to defend Angola's government against

a U.S. and South Africa backed effort to overthrow the people's movement for the liberation of Angola,

or MPLA. In early 1974, Portuguese colonialism ruled in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Besau,

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