I am cuban against the communist regime in my Country; I live of course in USA today. Thank u for the great content! I met veterans of that war, even from the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale...They asure the SADF boys were brave, tough enemies...Peace for all souls any side! God bless Africa with out communists!
I am Cuban. This is the best serial on the Angola-cuba war. I was born in November 1963. I was ready to be deployed tonAngola in 1982. I grew up following the Angola war. Quite a few of my friends were killed. Others came back with wounds and mental problems. I played schizophrenic and homosexual since I did no want to fight neither for Castro nor for apartheid. In 1986 I was able to flight to Panama and nov 87 to USA. Long live the SADF fighters. It is too sad to see so many young Cuban, Angolans and South African dying just for the convenience of communist and apartheid ideologies. Both inhuman and degraded.
Good job mate. My uncle was fighting on the “other side” alongside Cubans and Angolans , told me a lot of interesting stories. Back home in USSR most of the people didn’t even know our military personal has been involved in this conflict .
@@ayumalani5631 YOU LOST, in (A) Angola, (B) Namibia and (C ) South Africa. That's 3 countries all in a row! From all encompassing power to non. That's an annihilation in anyone's book. But hey whatever makes you sleep at night!
Hi Kevin, great series. Remember your dad well from my time working at Sweidans gun shop in Roodepoort. I have just pulled his book, days of the generals, out of my collection to read again.
What i can recall, is that we where on holiday in South Africa and at a railway crossing somewhere in the northern cape I saw the most elephant tanks ever on its way to Grootfontein for the battle at Cuito.
love this!!! thank you.... I have been trying to fight misinformation on youtube about the "border" war for years... this give me good ammo to fight back
It`s crazy, I was in standard 3 in 1987 and life on the East Rand in Johannesburg went on as normal, totally oblivious to what was going on up on the border, my neighbors lost their son up there in 1985, that I recall happening, I also remember having bomb scares at school on a regular basis around this time, all the students lined up on the field while the army and police searched the buildings, helicopters buzzing around and troops at all the gates armed to the teeth...what a time and place to be alive that was... Great channel, have subbed and will be awaiting new content, keep up the good work my Bru. : )
@@BallisticCoefficient Boksburg for me, so we were neighbors, kind of... I did attend Benoni Tech in 97/98 in Northmead, so many great memories of that area...
And now, having watched your series here Kevin, I too am fascinated about this battle. What a strange story - and how different, the reality, from what I saw on the news at the time. I thank you for sharing this knowiledge. I can see it has been quite a lot of work delivering this to the world. I can only hope that you aren ot finished now, having told this story. You must at least finish the story about the Buffalos, the Terrible Ones. Whatever became of them, where are they now?
After democracy dawned the unit was disbanded. The black veterans were sent to Pomfret, a small and poor town in the middle of nowhere in the Kalahari desert in South Africa. Really a tragic story. See if you can find Buffalo Battalion by dr. L.J. (Louis) Bothma
@@christiaanhollander7933 Deported? That sounds horrible, they were allies of South Africa were they not? As the Koevoet (I had to google Koevoet - and after finding crowbars I found the counter insurgency unit...I think you need to make a TH-cam movie on the topic, to educate us Europeans). Why were they deported? South Africa did not abandon friends and allies from Rhodesia as far as I know - regardless of colour of skin. Or am I wrong? Mocambique - didn't SA provide sanctruary to their allies from there as well? Is is this an incorrect impression?
Well done Kevin. It is clear that you invested a tremendous amount of effort into these productions, they are a great compliment to you and I turn to the wonderful SADF where so many of us served with great pride. I have been dedicated to making as many people aware of the ‘story’ as possible. It is truly wonderful that someone who was far to young to have been involved is so interested and committed to shed light on this very ‘muddy’ story.Thank you for making this available for us all to enjoy, you are a credit to your origins. Welcome to a small but very committed group who have the desire to keep this story alive.
"Give me 20 divisions American soldiers and I will breach Europe. Give me 15 consisting of Englishmen, and I will advance to the borders of Berlin. Give me two divisions of those marvellous fighting Boers (Meaning Farmer, originating from the Boer War) and I will remove Germany from the face of the earth." Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, Commander of the Allled forces during WWII. "The Americans fight for a free world, the English mostly for honour and glory and medals, the French and Canadians decide too late that they have to participate. The Italians are too scared to fight; the Russians have no choice. The Germans for the Fatherland. The Boers? Those sons of bitches fight for the hell of it." American General, George "Guts and Glory" Patton "Take a community of Dutchmen of the type of those who defended themselves for fifty years against all the power of Spain at a time when Spain was the greatest power in the world. Intermix with them a strain of those inflexible French Huguenots, who gave up their name and left their country forever at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The product must obviously be one of the most rugged, virile, unconquerable races ever seen upon the face of the earth. Take these formidable people and train them for seven generations in constant warfare against savage men and ferocious beasts, in circumstances in which no weakling could survive; place them so that they acquire skill with weapons and in horsemanship, give them a country which is eminently suited to the tactics of the huntsman, the marksman and the rider. Then, finally, put a fine temper upon their military qualities by a dour fatalistic Old Testament religion and an ardent and consuming patriotism. Combine all these qualities and all these impulses in one individual and you have the modern Boer." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Can you tell me what history book these quotations come from because i believe that they dont exist and thrse are just urban legends or propoganda. I studied the history of Montgomery and he never made that remark. He did however mention the South Africans once and that they did well but he never reffered to them as boers.
A pretty credible series.... Savimbi.....not Unita in totality.....unfortunately started off well in early 70s but became a devious prick into the late 80s An Old Sapper......Corp of Engineers...
Very nice. We had to do America service by fighting against FAPLA, but we had to endure crippling sanctions e.g. we needed new aircraft to fight against the sophisticated Migs of Fapla . Almost the same as the West has done against the revolt against Bashar Assad of Siria. But wait it gets even more bizarre . After South Africa trannsformed after 94, a mercenary company was contracted to fight WITH Fapla against Unita , previously the ally of America . Can someone please explain the logic behind this ?
Once the Soviet Union fell, in part due to foreign military blunders, then the USA had no use for UNITA. All the smaller parties were just expendable proxies for the great powers, but their fight is real to them. In many ways the War continues to this day, just in a different form
I had my questions when I realised you had a dog in the fight. Cubans were a game changer that lead to a stale mate. On two occasions the SADF was pushed back to the border I have not seen that here.
One of the greatest shame your website fails on acknowledging is that South Africa was defeated dismally in the war in that it tried to project itself as super yet was defeated by a small army from Cuba in all these adventures of theirs. Salute to Anti Apartheid international community.
The Cubans claim victory the South Africans also claim victory having fulfilled their objective which they say was never intended to take land in reality it was basically a stalemate with neither side able to achieve anything close to a full victory yes the SADF withdrew but they withdrew in good order with relatively light casualties however at the time Cuba had some 30k troops in Angola compared with maybe 7k South Africans at most not to mention 10k Soviet “advisors “ who were advising in the same way the Americans were advising in Vietnam prior to 1965 as in they were active combatants
Absolute BS James..... Was PMC....called Executive Outcomes initiated by Eben Barlow... If you comment read uo on you history and know your facts please...!!! Old Sapper....engineer
This is insane. South Africa blamed communism instead of fighting it's pungent racist policy of Apartheid then . They ran away to fight Angolans who had absolutely nothing to do with the systematic racism.
B@@sethosuwanga7125 go back to school n read what happened, the sadf defeated the Cubans n Russians , just look at the death and equipment numbers then come tell me who won
I am cuban against the communist regime in my Country; I live of course in USA today. Thank u for the great content! I met veterans of that war, even from the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale...They asure the SADF boys were brave, tough enemies...Peace for all souls any side! God bless Africa with out communists!
Thank you for fighting for our independence. Sincerely much appreciated 🇳🇦🇳🇦🇳🇦
I am Cuban. This is the best serial on the Angola-cuba war. I was born in November 1963. I was ready to be deployed tonAngola in 1982. I grew up following the Angola war. Quite a few of my friends were killed. Others came back with wounds and mental problems. I played schizophrenic and homosexual since I did no want to fight neither for Castro nor for apartheid. In 1986 I was able to flight to Panama and nov 87 to USA. Long live the SADF fighters. It is too sad to see so many young Cuban, Angolans and South African dying just for the convenience of communist and apartheid ideologies. Both inhuman and degraded.
Excellent series, I have just binge watched the lot. Extremely well done and a great resource for non-Afrikaans speakers!
Good job mate. My uncle was fighting on the “other side” alongside Cubans and Angolans , told me a lot of interesting stories. Back home in USSR most of the people didn’t even know our military personal has been involved in this conflict .
My father was in 32 Battalion. I was in 1 Intelligence Regiment. Thank you for a bit of history, takes me way back.
What was your number ?
Brilliant series. SADF were certainly a formidable fighting unit
Thank you, yes they were.
@@borntowar5581 How did Savimbi get his hands on a FAMAS? @ 12:57
Propaganda. Cuban forces were way better. FAPLA was no walk over.
@@brianmuvuti2102 We know enough about numerical superiority and whatever stuff you will put out. Just dont start a debate on things we already know.
@@ayumalani5631 YOU LOST, in (A) Angola, (B) Namibia and (C ) South Africa. That's 3 countries all in a row! From all encompassing power to non. That's an annihilation in anyone's book. But hey whatever makes you sleep at night!
Hi Kevin, great series. Remember your dad well from my time working at Sweidans gun shop in Roodepoort. I have just pulled his book, days of the generals, out of my collection to read again.
What i can recall, is that we where on holiday in South Africa and at a railway crossing somewhere in the northern cape I saw the most elephant tanks ever on its way to Grootfontein for the battle at Cuito.
Lekker boet!! Cant wait for the second chapter
Thanks, I am busy finalizing it. It will be released on September 13th to Coincide with the first battles.
Well done on a brilliant Documentary Kevin (Ex 61MACH)
love this!!! thank you.... I have been trying to fight misinformation on youtube about the "border" war for years... this give me good ammo to fight back
Great work. 👍
It`s crazy, I was in standard 3 in 1987 and life on the East Rand in Johannesburg went on as normal, totally oblivious to what was going on up on the border, my neighbors lost their son up there in 1985, that I recall happening, I also remember having bomb scares at school on a regular basis around this time, all the students lined up on the field while the army and police searched the buildings, helicopters buzzing around and troops at all the gates armed to the teeth...what a time and place to be alive that was...
Great channel, have subbed and will be awaiting new content, keep up the good work my Bru.
: )
I would have been in Standard 5, in Benoni. Cheers :)
@@BallisticCoefficient Boksburg for me, so we were neighbors, kind of...
I did attend Benoni Tech in 97/98 in Northmead, so many great memories of that area...
Good stuff,I was there.
I met chap who fought in this war recently. Some stories told..... he told me to watch this so lets go EP.1
And now, having watched your series here Kevin, I too am fascinated about this battle. What a strange story - and how different, the reality, from what I saw on the news at the time. I thank you for sharing this knowiledge. I can see it has been quite a lot of work delivering this to the world. I can only hope that you aren ot finished now, having told this story. You must at least finish the story about the Buffalos, the Terrible Ones. Whatever became of them, where are they now?
After democracy dawned the unit was disbanded. The black veterans were sent to Pomfret, a small and poor town in the middle of nowhere in the Kalahari desert in South Africa. Really a tragic story. See if you can find Buffalo Battalion by dr. L.J. (Louis) Bothma
Ugh they are deported back to angola aswell for lot of men of swatf aka koevoet..
@@christiaanhollander7933 Deported? That sounds horrible, they were allies of South Africa were they not? As the Koevoet (I had to google Koevoet - and after finding crowbars I found the counter insurgency unit...I think you need to make a TH-cam movie on the topic, to educate us Europeans). Why were they deported? South Africa did not abandon friends and allies from Rhodesia as far as I know - regardless of colour of skin. Or am I wrong? Mocambique - didn't SA provide sanctruary to their allies from there as well? Is is this an incorrect impression?
Well done Kevin. It is clear that you invested a tremendous amount of effort into these productions, they are a great compliment to you and I turn to the wonderful SADF where so many of us served with great pride. I have been dedicated to making as many people aware of the ‘story’ as possible. It is truly wonderful that someone who was far to young to have been involved is so interested and committed to shed light on this very ‘muddy’ story.Thank you for making this available for us all to enjoy, you are a credit to your origins.
Welcome to a small but very committed group who have the desire to keep this story alive.
very interesting documentary
Thank you loved it.cant wait for the rest.Blessings
13 September! Got it marked on my calendar.
"Give me 20 divisions American soldiers and I will breach Europe. Give me 15 consisting of Englishmen, and I will advance to the borders of Berlin. Give me two divisions of those marvellous fighting Boers (Meaning Farmer, originating from the Boer War) and I will remove Germany from the face of the earth." Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery, Commander of the Allled forces during WWII.
"The Americans fight for a free world, the English mostly for honour and glory and medals, the French and Canadians decide too late that they have to participate. The Italians are too scared to fight; the Russians have no choice. The Germans for the Fatherland. The Boers? Those sons of bitches fight for the hell of it." American General, George "Guts and Glory" Patton
"Take a community of Dutchmen of the type of those who defended themselves for fifty years against all the power of Spain at a time when Spain was the greatest power in the world. Intermix with them a strain of those inflexible French Huguenots, who gave up their name and left their country forever at the time of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The product must obviously be one of the most rugged, virile, unconquerable races ever seen upon the face of the earth. Take these formidable people and train them for seven generations in constant warfare against savage men and ferocious beasts, in circumstances in which no weakling could survive; place them so that they acquire skill with weapons and in horsemanship, give them a country which is eminently suited to the tactics of the huntsman, the marksman and the rider. Then, finally, put a fine temper upon their military qualities by a dour fatalistic Old Testament religion and an ardent and consuming patriotism. Combine all these qualities and all these impulses in one individual and you have the modern Boer." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Can you tell me what history book these quotations come from because i believe that they dont exist and thrse are just urban legends or propoganda. I studied the history of Montgomery and he never made that remark. He did however mention the South Africans once and that they did well but he never reffered to them as boers.
I see Savimbi carried a French FAMAS rifle. Interesting. It must have been the only one in the theatre.
I’ve enjoyed this series. Freedom for all vs rolling blackouts and communism. Let me think!!
Incredibly the warships and amphyfious comandos not fearing soviets submarines working in the área!
Ja that is all that I can comment was it really necessary
Wow
Winners became losers and losers became winners.
That s always comunism tactics, i t be seen on Spanish Civil war ,and Latin America s civils wars...and still continues
A pretty credible series....
Savimbi.....not Unita in totality.....unfortunately started off well in early 70s but became a devious prick into the late 80s
An Old Sapper......Corp of Engineers...
Hallo Kevin. Do you still read the messages left? If you do please respond as I have a message for your dad. Thank you 🙏
Hi Koos I still read these messages. I can pass on your message to my Dad...
I asked because I was there and still live in RSA
Very nice. We had to do America service by fighting against FAPLA, but we had to endure crippling sanctions e.g. we needed new aircraft to fight against the sophisticated Migs of Fapla . Almost the same as the West has done against the revolt against Bashar Assad of Siria. But wait it gets even more bizarre . After South Africa trannsformed after 94, a mercenary company was contracted to fight WITH Fapla against Unita , previously the ally of America . Can someone please explain the logic behind this ?
Once the Soviet Union fell, in part due to foreign military blunders, then the USA had no use for UNITA. All the smaller parties were just expendable proxies for the great powers, but their fight is real to them. In many ways the War continues to this day, just in a different form
Born To War Agreed: that’s why there are regions in Angola and Zaire that are ruled by warlord
Ironically, Angola was using money from American oil companies to fight armies assisted by America.
Turned it down, could not fight against old friends.
Money and Oil of course....same old
I had my questions when I realised you had a dog in the fight. Cubans were a game changer that lead to a stale mate. On two occasions the SADF was pushed back to the border I have not seen that here.
more info around that? i have studied this war in detail I what two times do you speak of?
I would also like to hear about this .....i wonder if Kevin knows where the border actually was .??,..
Old Sapper....Engineers
A withdrawal after achieving an objective is not a defeat. Intent was never to occupy that quagmire indefinitely.
Yes we were,now useless
One of the greatest shame your website fails on acknowledging is that South Africa was defeated dismally in the war in that it tried to project itself as super yet was defeated by a small army from Cuba in all these adventures of theirs. Salute to Anti Apartheid international community.
The Cubans claim victory the South Africans also claim victory having fulfilled their objective which they say was never intended to take land in reality it was basically a stalemate with neither side able to achieve anything close to a full victory yes the SADF withdrew but they withdrew in good order with relatively light casualties however at the time Cuba had some 30k troops in Angola compared with maybe 7k South Africans at most not to mention 10k Soviet “advisors “ who were advising in the same way the Americans were advising in Vietnam prior to 1965 as in they were active combatants
Were you there ????
@Adam indoctrinated troll hasn't a clue
Don't talk kak
After the anc came in to power sa went in and destroyed unita
Absolute BS James.....
Was PMC....called Executive Outcomes initiated by Eben Barlow...
If you comment read uo on you history and know your facts please...!!!
Old Sapper....engineer
@John Stuart correct
@Jou Moer Lies!
When was this ? Wheres your source ? Because you are talking absolute kak
This is insane. South Africa blamed communism instead of fighting it's pungent racist policy of Apartheid then . They ran away to fight Angolans who had absolutely nothing to do with the systematic racism.
Don't play with Cuba
Cuba was weak af
Boers were defeated hands down.
B@@sethosuwanga7125 go back to school n read what happened, the sadf defeated the Cubans n Russians , just look at the death and equipment numbers then come tell me who won