Young, Crawford. [13], Algeria supported the Polisario Front, a left-wing movement supported by Moscow that battled for 10 years for control of Western Sahara from Morocco. In 1989, the Soviet Union cannot face numerous revolts, the Berlin wall is destroyed and Germany is reunited. [30] In this context, King Hassan II of Morocco said in 1980 that Morocco and the Soviet Union are "at war". United Nations (UN) secretary-general Dag Hammarskjld feared the imminent communisation of the Congo, despite the despatch of UN peacekeepers. But could they deliver a golden age for their followers? However, nowhere on the continent was a strict form of communism ever practiced. Therefore, US policy on decolonization often clashed with its rhetoric. Others were appalled by everyday racism: one was asked by Russians whether Africans lived in houses. The chapters in this book offer analyses of the socialist strategies of African liberation movements that assumed control of independent governments and common problems they have faced in the process of transitioning from colonial domination. Moscows doctrinal purists had dismissed Nasser as a radical nationalist in the mould of those military strongmen who held sway across South America. termed the "Cold War" but is, in reality, a war in which, in Africa, much heat is engendered. They had tried to achieve their goals of majority rule through peaceful means and failed. The emergence of nationalist movements on the continent coincided with the beginning of the Cold War, and the ideological and strategic competition involving the United States and the Soviet Union and China for client states in Africa. The following day, a huge sea and air assault, supporting landings of British tanks and marines, succeeded in taking the port. ", Aryeh Y. Yodfat, "The Soviet Union and the Horn of Africa,", Diana L. Ohlbaum, "Ethiopia and the Construction of Soviet Identity, 1974-1991. BELIEF IN SOCIALISM Empires had always proclaimed intended reciprocity. Both powers had called on their African subjects to fight for them, and the response had been impressive: more than one million Africans fought in Europe, north Africa and the far east, and were repeatedly told that they were risking their lives for freedom and democracy. Their backers assured them that they could. Although the communist ideas and arguments of such European theorists as Marx and Engels have been around since just before the turn of the 20th century, they have never been widespread in Africa. It was waged mainly on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and lasted until 1991. The United States had won on points. These states followed the ideology of Marxism-Leninism, in opposition to the capitalist Western . Drew provides an excellent account of the development of both the Algerian and South African Communist parties over time. The 15 new states are: Russia Estonia Latvia Until the death of Stalin in 1953, the Soviet Union showed very little interest in Africa. Angola During the Cold War: Background . [10], As early as the 1930s, the Algerian Communist Party made up an important faction of the Algerian nationalist movement; however it supported France in the growing unrest, and was forced to dissolve in 1956. Byrne, Jeffrey James. The years following the end of the Second World War saw both the start of the Cold War between the west and the eastern bloc, and the break-up of empires as colonies across Africa and Asia strove for independence. Cynical pragmatism prevailed in Washington and Moscow when selecting African clients. The trouble is, you never know whats going to happen yesterday., The Cuban mission was represented as a noble and selfless act of internationalist solidarity with a sister state whose hard-won liberty was under threat from reactionary and, above all, racist forces, says Christabelle Peters, the author of. Why was the Cuban missile crisis such an important event in the Cold War? ", Craig A. Daigle, "The Russians are going: Sadat, Nixon and the Soviet presence in Egypt. Please subscribe or login. The USSR used its fleet of Antonov An-12 and Antonov An-22 air transports, as well as cargo vessels, to ship a billion dollars in fighter-bombers, tanks, artillery, and ammunition in a very short time. Articles from Britannica Encyclopedias for elementary and high school students. [19] During the Nasser years, many young Egyptians studied in Soviet universities and military schools. The Kremlin developed four major long-term policy goals: At no time was Moscow willing to engage in combat in Africa, although its ally Cuba did so. I was aware of participating in a historic moment for the country. changed sides to become violently anti-Soviet. ", Philip E. Muehlenbeck, "Kennedy and Toure: A success in personal diplomacy. under Mengistu Haile Mariam, following [4] Soviet leaders, beginning with Nikita Khrushchev, were excited by the enthusiastic young black Africans who first came to Moscow for a major youth festival in 1957. ", Piero Gleijeses, "Cuba's first venture in Africa: Algeria, 19611965. [33][34] During the 1980s, a convoluted series of arms sales involving the Stasi, the Danish ship Pia Vesta, and Manuel Noriega of Panama ultimately aimed to transfer Soviet arms and military vehicles to South Africa. Afro-Marxist Regimes: Ideology and Public Policy. former adversaries of the MPLA mainly the USA and China have become the most important trading partners, as Christabelle Peters points out. Please refer to the appropriate style manual or other sources if you have any questions. ", Larry C. Napper, "The Arab Autumn of 1984: A Case Study of Soviet Middle East Diplomacy. While this nation has a predominantly black population, for most of the 20th century it was ruled by a white African minority . The United States threw its weight behind the rival party, the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA), in co-operation with South Africa. Nkrumah was a pan-Africanist the goals of an independent and united Africa took precedence over the socialist revolution. [17] The involvement of the Soviets split the Congolese government and led to an impasse between Lumumba and conservative President Joseph Kasa-Vubu, who was anti-communist. by the West for making a public stand against Communism, while at the By midnight, British and French troops had secured the canal zone and sparked fury from the United States and the Soviet Union. Two small countries deserve pride of place: Cuba, which sent tens of thousands of soldiers to southern Africa, and Sweden, which gave vital economic assistance to African liberation movements. But Nasser was an ideal ally in Khrushchevs new policy of challenging the west in Africa. These are some of the communist countries during the Cold War era.. * Angola * * The Cuban troops and the Soviets supported Angola for their war on independence and in return Angola adopted communism. By the mid-1980s, the communist powerhouse was facing an economic crisis, losing a war in Afghanistan and overstretched in Africa. You can unsubscribe at any time. Britain and France, in particular, had taken pride in the belief that their rule was benevolent and progressive, and that at some unspecified date in the future their colonies would achieve independence. Rosberg, Carl, and Thomas Callaghy, eds. Saivetz, Carol R., and Sylvia Woodby, eds. Moreover and this was a growing source of anxiety for Washington Britain and France no longer enjoyed their former prestige in Africa, and their efforts to cling on there imperilled American interests. [32], Despite the widely reported Soviet support for the ANC and otherwise liberation movements, the Soviet Union also engaged in some trade with South Africa during the apartheid era, mostly involving arms and some mineral resources. The so-called "Casablanca" group (Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Egypt, and Morocco) call themselves "neutralists," but one at least among themGuineahas sought and received bigger and better aid from the East than from the West. 1950s / Cold War. The Americans and the British worried that Soviet domination in eastern Europe might be permanent. [25] It proclaimed Marxism-Leninism as its official ideology and became a close ally of Moscow. Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba threatened the nationalisation of foreign businesses, and looked to the Soviet Union for assistance. The favorite technique therefore was to identify the Soviet Union with the rising tide of nationalism to demonstrate that they in Moscow were engaged in a common struggle against Western imperialism. Ideology and Development. The Cold War came to a close gradually. ", Ermarth, Fritz. Cold War Alliances. The Cold War was an ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after World War II. This bibliographical essay focuses on the Cold War crises in Africa. In fact, Emmanuel Macron, President of France, described NATO as 'brain dead' in 2019. 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United States participation in the Southeast Asia War resulted from the policy of "containment," which aimed to prevent communism from expanding beyond its early Cold War borders. Simultaneously, French troops landed at Raswa and Port Fuad just to the south and east. Without Soviet and Cuban weaponry, and without Cubas 50,000 troops, the MPLA would almost certainly not have beaten UNITA and the South African Defence Force at the battle of Cuito Cuanavale, in 1988. Munslow, Barry, ed. Thus, the Soviet Union sent troops to preserve communist rule in East Germany (1953), Hungary (1956), Czechoslovakia (1968), and Afghanistan (1979). French director Jean Luc Godard went to Maputo at the request of FRELIMO during this time as well. For NATO the war in Ukraine meant a revival in its fortunes. Expand or collapse the "in this article" section, Communism, Marxist-Leninism, and Socialism in Africa, African Nationalist Movements and Communism, Marxism-Leninism and Crafting a Path to Liberation, Early African Postcolonial States and Liberation Movements and Socialism, Expand or collapse the "related articles" section, Expand or collapse the "forthcoming articles" section, Art, Art History, and the Study of Africa, British Colonial Rule in Sub-Saharan Africa, Development of Early Farming and Pastoralism, Early States And State Formation In Africa, Eastern Africa and the South Asian Diaspora, Great Lakes States of Eastern Africa, The, Health, Medicine, and the Study of Africa, Historiography and Methods of African History, Indian Ocean and Middle Eastern Slave Trades, Kongo and the Coastal States of West Central Africa. These were seen as values that were common in African traditions. By 1976, the military sphere was the pivot of Angolan-Soviet relations. Soon after, Mixinge became one of the tens of thousands of Africans to travel to Cuba for schooling. A closer reading of the objects on display, however, reveals a nuanced and conflicted history, the impact of which is still palpable today. Picture Information. Gorbachevs reforms meanwhile weakened his own communist party and allowed power to shift to the constituent governments of the Soviet bloc. African elites who were exposed to socialist ideas either in the workplace or through the writings of theorists such as Karl Marx and V.I. Lenin and were attracted by the notions of social equality, mutual respect, and the sharing of labor. [21][22] Relations were reestablished under president Hosni Mubarak in 1984, and Alexander Belonogov became the Ambassador. Your current browser may not support copying via this button. Nationalist movements more closely aligned with the major Communist regimes, the USSR and China, did not begin to surface until the 1970s, particularly in Lusophone Africa (Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea Bissau) and Ethiopia, where liberation revolutionary movements developed. Chiswick Auctions will sell the collection of a former British journalist and presumed diplomat who gained access to some of the world's most secretive countries during the Cold War era.. From the 1950s to the 1980s, John Newell spent time in North Korea, China, East Germany, Russia, Tibet, Zanzibar, Alaska, and Panama for both work and leisure at a time when many of these areas were largely . After rejecting a Soviet proposal for a four-nation Marxist-Leninist confederation, the Somali government launched an offensive in July 1977 with the intent of capturing Ethiopias Ogaden region, starting the Ogaden War. Joseph Stalin had a fleeting interest in claiming the former Italian colony of Tripolitania in modern-day Libya, but the NATO containment policy blocked those efforts. Soviet Union. Malcolm Rifkind writes the Eastern superpower lacks the ideological grounding to cause international tensions akin to the Soviet Union. Furthermore, the British and French publics were increasingly grumbling that maintaining their African colonies was too costly: repression was expensive. "The Soviet Union in the Third World: Purpose in Search of Power.". Somalia appeared to be on the brink of victory after gaining control of 90% of the area. The defeat fatally undermined the apartheid regime, and Nelson Mandela would declare: We are deeply indebted to the Cuban people for the selfless contribution they made to the anti-colonial and anti-apartheid struggle in our region we will never forget those who stood by us in the darkest years of our struggle against apartheid.. This resulted in the widespread popularity of the ideas of Pan-Africanists from America, Europe, and the Caribbean, such as George Padmore and W.E.B. Dubois and the proponents of the concept of Ngritude as espoused by Leopold Senghor of Senegal and Aim Csaire of Martinique. For 40 years, the apartheid regime had presented itself as a bastion against communism a stance that had secured it a steady flow of western arms. Russian commentators turned scornful of the Ethiopian regime. New York: Africana, 1986. Moscows propagandists portrayed Nasser as a champion of oppressed peoples in their worldwide struggle against imperialism and capitalism. Expand or collapse the "in this article" section, The Congo (Now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), 19601965, War in the Portuguese Colonies, 19611975, European Communist Countries Other Than the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, Art, Art History, and the Study of Africa, British Colonial Rule in Sub-Saharan Africa, Communism, Marxist-Leninism, and Socialism in Africa, Development of Early Farming and Pastoralism, Early States And State Formation In Africa, Eastern Africa and the South Asian Diaspora, Great Lakes States of Eastern Africa, The, Health, Medicine, and the Study of Africa, Historiography and Methods of African History, Indian Ocean and Middle Eastern Slave Trades, Kongo and the Coastal States of West Central Africa. But, as in the neighbouring DRC, Soviet support alone was not enough to secure power. In the mid-1950s, two developments signaled the arrival of the Cold War in North Africa: the Algerian War of independence against France began in November 1954; and Egypt adopted an independent foreign policy, challenging British influence in the Middle East, helping the Algerian rebels, and buying weapons from the Soviet bloc. In these colonies, jailing, torturing, and killing Africans was routine, but not on a large scale, except in Madagascar (19471948) and Kenya (19521956), where there were major revolts; neither received outside assistance. The Cold War was solidified by 194748, when U.S. aid had brought certain Western countries under American influence and the Soviets had established openly communist regimes. [16], Facing enormous turmoil in the newly independent Republic of the Congo (Lopoldville), Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, the charismatic leader of the Mouvement National Congolais, reacted by calling for assistance from the Soviet Union. The first such confrontation occurred in the former . He was just 11 when he and his sister left Angola. The Kremlin promptly sent military advisors and munitions. period, it was the only government to do so under the same leader It has been reported that between 1963 and 1969 the United States Agency for International Development spent US$3.3m delivering radios and small arms to African police forces and instructing them in strike-breaking, riot control and investigating sedition. forces in African countries, th e Cold War actors institutionali zed a violent political culture in postcolonial Africa. Following a coup in 1965, he stayed in power until 1997 and amassed a personal fortune estimated at several billion US dollars by siphoning off the nations wealth. Copy this link, or click below to email it to a friend. According to Marxist theory, in its most advanced form, communism involves state control by the working class. At times, however, realpolitik acted as a brake. Coming as it did on the heels of the end of the First Indochinese War, the Algerian conflict further emboldened national liberation forces throughout the colonial and semi-colonial world, a region of increasing importance to policymakers in Washington and . Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014. For full treatment, see international relations. However, the African nationalist movement was led by the better educated young middle-class that had little exposure to communism or socialism. The invasion of Port Said, and the operation to capture the Suez Canal, was launched. It was left to the last leader of a communist Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, to disengage from Africa. . There, everyone was equal! Starting then, the Cuban Operation Carlota, to support the MPLA, was to change the course of history in southern Africa. The Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (its Portuguese name abbreviated to MPLA), led by Agostinho Neto who became the newly independent nations first president, was backed by the Soviet Union which, in return, was allowed to establish a naval base at the countrys capital, Luanda. The Soviet Union was the first country in the world to recognize the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic in 1962 by establishing diplomatic relations a few months before the official proclamation of its independence. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). The Congo, Decolonization, and the Cold War, 1960-1965. ", Sergei Mazov, "Soviet Aid to the Gizenga Government in the Former Belgian Congo (196061) as Reflected in Russian Archives. Its founder Vladimir Lenin did argue in his famous book Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism that imperialism was inherently caused by capitalism, and the inaugural session of the Comintern in 1919 included a declaration of solidarity for "the colonial slaves of Africa and Asia." A product of the Cold War, the Southeast Asia War (1961-1973) began with communist attempts to overthrow non-communist governments in the region. ", Yahia Zoubir, "Soviet policy toward the Western Sahara conflict. Mobutu was similarly supported Rather than being seen as a form of communism, African socialism was viewed as a pragmatic ideology that blended some aspects of classical socialism, communism, Pan-Africanism, and African traditional values. The Kremlin thought Castro's adventurism was dangerous but it was unable to stop him. [28], President John F. Kennedy eagerly sought to establish good relations with newly independent African nations in the wake of Krushchev's 1961 speech that proclaimed the USSR's intention to intervene in anticolonial struggles around the world. South Africa was also, as US President Ronald Reagan remarked in 1981, essential to the free world in its production of minerals we all must have. Above all, it is the USA that most profits from the war. Some students were shocked by conditions in Moscow, which was summed up by one African visitor as having no cars, no cafes, no good clothes or good food. driving the others to use guerilla tactics to resist communist rule. Because of this, when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, Cuba was forced to find new sources for trade and financial subsidies. The Cold War was heavily felt was in South Africa. That did not happen, and instead the Soviets emphasized identifying likely allies and giving them financial aid and munitions, as well as credits to purchase from the Soviet bloc. Another intense stage of the Cold War was in 195862. The communist governments of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union collapsed between 1989 and 1991. Such leaders had come to power at the head of disciplined parties, practised the arts of messianic leadership, and fostered popular optimism. [18], In the 1950s, Gamal Abdel Nasser began to follow an anti-imperialist policy that earned him enthusiastic support from the Communist government of the USSR. Algeria became a leader of the Non-Aligned Movement, and largely targeted its rhetoric towards the United States, rather than France. From 1953 to 1957 Cold War tensions relaxed somewhat, largely owing to the death of the longtime Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in 1953; nevertheless, the standoff remained. In other places, such as Madagascar, Benin, Congo-Brazzaville, and Zimbabwe, leaders of independent regimes merely claimed to be Marxist-Leninist, without usually developing policies consistent with a firm commitment to a particular ideological or institutional persuasion. This was prudent: at this stage there was no knowing who would win the Cold War. Lawrence James is a historian and author of Empires in the Sun: The Struggle for the Mastery of Africa (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2016), This content first appeared in issue 3 of BBC World Histories magazine, Save up to 49% AND your choice of gift card worth 10* when you subscribe BBC History Magazine or BBC History Revealed PLUS! Communist societies believed in redistributing wealth (taking from the rich and giving to the poor) and promoted workers and state-run economies. Nato also armed two colonial powers, France and Portugal, in their struggles against nationalist insurgents in Algeria, Angola and Mozambique. Krim Belkacem, who served in the French army and was later a partisan leader and a minister in the provisional Algerian government before independence, spoke for many veterans when he declared: My brother returned from Europe with medals and frostbitten feet! He was responding to events in the Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC) in 1960 following the withdrawal of the Belgians, who had enriched themselves on their colonys mineral resources and neglected the welfare of their subjects: on independence day, 30 June 1960, the Congo had perhaps just 200 African graduates. On the other hand, both ideology and realpolitik led the Soviet Union to support those who fought for independence. EAST German communist officer uniform NVA COLD WAR RELIC RARE. In 1975, when the Portuguese made a clumsy exit from Angola, the MPLA was already embroiled in a war against two rival movements (the FNLA and UNITA), funded by the CIA, Zaire (now known as the Democratic Republic of Congo), and the South African apartheid regime none of whom were keen to see an African, Marxist party take power in oil-rich Angola. The term was first used by the English writer George Orwell in an article published in 1945 to refer to what he predicted would be a nuclear stalemate between two or three monstrous super-states, each possessed of a weapon by which millions of people can be wiped out in a few seconds. It was first used in the United States by the American financier and presidential adviser Bernard Baruch in a speech at the State House in Columbia, South Carolina, in 1947. First, much like in Vietnam, American leaders, such as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, believed that a Communist takeover in Angola would lead to a "domino effect" in the rest of southern Africa. Communism is a particular form of socialism. 4 The Cold War shaped Africa 's decolonization process and transition to nationhood in . Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. In 1991, USSR implode and the 15 republics become independent states, marking therefore the end of the cold war. United States intervention in Angola was heavily shaped by several factors. Oxford Bibliographies Online is available by subscription and perpetual access to institutions. The Cuban missile crisis showed that neither the United States nor the Soviet Union were ready to use nuclear weapons for fear of the others retaliation (and thus of mutual atomic annihilation). (2009) 7#5 pp 1259-1268. They were popular and well liked.. Joseph Stalin considered Africa to be low priority and discouraged relationships with or studies of the continent. To gain a lasting presence on the continent. There was a sense of freedom, of liberation, as palpable in the streets as in the Mozambicans we met, remembers anthropologist Nadine Wanono, then a student of French cultural ethnographer, Jean Rouch, with whom she travelled to Mozambique in 1978, to teach Super 8 film techniques to FRELIMOs post-independence government. As the Second World War's uneasy alliances unravelled, a new world emerged: of east vs west and of global conflicts as the superpowers vied for influence. By 1975, some 36,000 Cuban reservists with artillery, tanks and missile systems were serving in Angola, while Cuban doctors, teachers and technicians replaced their Portuguese counterparts who had returned home. This meant, at least from the public pronouncement of leaders, their commitment to egalitarianism. Although USSR retreat from Afghanistan and stop funding communist militias in Africa. By 1959 the US state department was convinced that democratic Africa was fragile and prepared to embrace authoritarian but reliable alternatives. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982. What were practiced were hybrid forms of socialism, including some that eclectically borrowed from Marxist-Leninist and Maoist theory. Underlying this common policy was the cynical maxim reputedly uttered by US president Franklin D Roosevelt about Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Garca, but equally applicable to any of the rivals chosen African despots He may be a son of a bitch, but hes our son of a bitch.. During the 1970s the Cold War entered a phase known as dtente, described as "an improvement in the relationship between two countries that in the past were not friendly and did not trust each . Castros commitment to Angola was integral to a strategy that would extend the struggle for independence to neighbouring South West Africa (later Namibia) and Rhodesia (today, Zimbabwe). The subsequent . Here we are one year after Russia's blood-drenched invasion of Ukraine, the country that has always been the leading tripwire for a global nuclear war in the post-Soviet era. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1987. Afterwards, US secretary of state John Foster Dulles concluded that it was now imperative for America to fill the vacuum of power which the British filled for a century. A golden age for their followers therefore, US policy on decolonization often clashed with its rhetoric.. Joseph considered. Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1982 their worldwide struggle imperialism..., 1960-1965 were appalled by everyday racism: one was asked by Russians whether Africans lived in.! 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