communist countries in africa during cold war

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. This page was last edited on 29 January 2023, at 09:44. Red Africa: From a generation of cinematographers to the end of apartheid Africa, Cuba and the Soviet Union. For example, after the Algerian revolution began in November 1954, the Soviets hesitated for more than two years before sending weapons to the rebels for fear of antagonizing the French government. Increasingly complex international relationships developed as a result, and smaller countries became more resistant to superpower cajoling. The two superpowers soon signed the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty of 1963, which banned aboveground nuclear weapons testing. Neither country followed the Kremlin's directives unquestioningly. Another intense stage of the Cold War was in 195862. Cynical pragmatism prevailed in Washington and Moscow when selecting African clients. Angolas civil war, which did not end until 2002. The article is particularly useful in understanding the history of Communist parties and movements throughout Africa. The pattern was set for the next 30 years of proxy rivalry in Africa. Even though socialist ideas were popular among African intellectuals, the emerging nationalists on the continent felt that these ideas had to somehow be molded to fit the realities of the African condition. However, these alliances were made primarily because they offered material support to the movement or dominant party in a regime, rather than being based on a clear and consistent acceptance of the guiding ideology of either the Western or Communist partner. Rather, in 1956, they attempted to recover their old influence by their joint invasion of Egypt. Afrocommunism. After 1945, the pace of change quickened. 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.. Simultaneously, French troops landed at Raswa and Port Fuad just to the south and east. SOVIET SUPPORT It was there, at School No 50, that I saw Sarah Moldorors film Sambizanga for the first time.The film is set in 1961 and depicts the anti-colonial struggle of the MPLA forces during the Angolan War of Independence. From 1960 to 1964, De Beers had a unique arrangement to sell Soviet diamonds from Siberia. In 1977 the Soviets attempted to unseat Neto, whom they now distrusted. The Soviet Union and Somalia had then signed a Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation in 1974. 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. If African movements and parties after independence allied themselves with the United States, China, or the Soviet Union, they were labeled as either capitalist or communist (Young 1982, Idahosa 2004, Rosberg and Callaghy 1979, Friedland and Rosberg 1964). From the 1960s, cinema was one of the most important aspects of the alliances between Cuba, the USSR and African liberation movements. Some were destined for Rhodesia, where the white minority were defending themselves against nationalist partisans, some of whom enjoyed Soviet patronage. The Soviets hailed Ethiopia for its supposed similar cultural and historical parallels to the USSR. The truth is nuanced. [21][22] Relations were reestablished under president Hosni Mubarak in 1984, and Alexander Belonogov became the Ambassador. Copy this link, or click below to email it to a friend. Pretoria severed diplomatic ties with Moscow in 1956, because of its support for the SACP. Feuchtwanger, Edgar, and Peter Nailor, eds. Following the surrender of Nazi Germany in May 1945 near the close of World War II, the uneasy wartime alliance between the United States and Great Britain on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other began to unravel. In 1979 my family lived very close to a camp for Cubans who were constructing some buildings in Luanda, recalls Angolan writer, Adriano Mixinge. The Cold War Fear of Communism South Africa, along with Egypt, were the first two countries on the continent to give rise to Communist parties - both in the 1920s. Filmmaking both documentary and fiction in support of rebellious causes were emerging across the world, from Palestine to Latin America, and young members of guerrilla movements such as the PAIGCs Flora Gomes and Sana Na Nhada were sent to Cuba to learn the language and techniques of Third Cinema, the values of revolution and social justice of which echoed the early, utopian ideals of African anti-colonial struggles. Washington feared that the metropoles intransigence would open the door to Soviet meddling. A product of the Cold War, the Southeast Asia War (1961-1973) began with communist attempts to overthrow non-communist governments in the region. Thus, the Soviet Union sent troops to preserve communist rule in East Germany (1953), Hungary (1956), Czechoslovakia (1968), and Afghanistan (1979). * Benin * * After Mathieu Kerekou who was a military Commander overthrew the government, Benin became a communist state. Under American and British pressure, Rhodesia consented to black majority rule in 1979. The link was not copied. [20], The relationship went sour within years after the death of Nasser, when the new president Anwar Sadat started re-orienting the country toward the West. The Americans and the British worried that Soviet domination in eastern Europe might be permanent. under Major Ngouabi. 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It would be foolhardy, he warned, to ignore the fierce and growing spirit of nationalism spreading across Africa and Asia. One way by which the Soviets could win friends in the continent, as well as spread the Marxist-Leninist gospel among its future leaders, was to offer scholarships for Africans to study at universities in the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries. One Kremlin official, Anatoly Adamishin, spoke for many others when he asked: Why, with all our problems, did we have to get involved [in Africa]? We could not afford it. Angola alone owed the Soviet Union US$5bn, which it could not repay. Britain was anxious that power in Africa was handed to dependable politicians. 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. The decolonization of Sub-Saharan Africa from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s resulted in several proxy Cold War confrontations between the United States and the Soviet Union over the dozens of newly independent, non-aligned nations. US and Soviet intelligence agencies played kingmakers, financing and overseeing coups to install biddable rulers. in Africa. In the late 1950s, both the United States and the Soviet Union were developing intercontinental ballistic missiles. Based on multi-sited archival research and memoirs, this article shows how Africans forged and used new routes to gain access to higher education denied to them in their territories of origin, and in this way also shaped scholarship policies across the globe. 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. driving the others to use guerilla tactics to resist communist rule. Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba threatened the nationalisation of foreign businesses, and looked to the Soviet Union for assistance. The Kremlin thought Castro's adventurism was dangerous but it was unable to stop him. The Soviets exploited such reactions, offering sympathy and friendship, and accusing the imperialists of slyly seeking to retain their power to exploit their subjects. Crisis is an early test of IMF's crisis management role and leads to first large burst of lending by IMF to the four countries involved. The conflict showed that both superpowers were wary of using their nuclear weapons against each other for fear of mutual atomic annihilation. The Soviet Union, too, played an important role in the development of African cinema, training some of the continents most celebrated filmmakers in Moscow, including Ousmene Sembene,Souleymane Cisse and Abderrahmane Sissako. Why not here?. Castro had learned from Guatemala, and was able to thwart a coup attempt in 1961. For its part, the United States helped overthrow a left-wing government in Guatemala (1954), supported an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba (1961), invaded the Dominican Republic (1965) and Grenada (1983), and undertook a long (196475) and unsuccessful effort to prevent communist North Vietnam from bringing South Vietnam under its rule (see Vietnam War). Second it wanted to gain a voice in African affairs, primarily by supporting local communist parties, and providing economic and military aid to the governments. "The Soviet Union in the Third World: Purpose in Search of Power.". The first appearances of communist ideas in Africa were introduced by European workers in newly industrializing colonies with a significant concentration of settlers. Edited by Stephen A. Smith. ", Gary D. Payton, "The Soviet-Ethiopian Liaison: Airlift and Beyond. In February 1989, Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs Eduard Shevardnadze visited Egypt. Furthermore, the British and French publics were increasingly grumbling that maintaining their African colonies was too costly: repression was expensive. 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. By 1980, then, South Africa ruled by what Castro called a Fascist-Racist regime stood alone against the forces of African nationalism. Mengistu urgently needed help. 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 Cuban Identity and the Angolan Experience and a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Warwick. Starting then, the Cuban Operation Carlota, to support the MPLA, was to change the course of history in southern Africa. Africa-Soviet Union relations covers the diplomatic, political, military, and cultural relationships between the Soviet Union and Africa from the 1945 to 1991. At the same time, what they liked about Soviet-style socialism was not so much the notion of a proletarian revolution, but rather of the need for the role a disciplined vanguard party. In 1961, the ANC and the SACP created a joint military wing, known as the "Spear of the Nation." Not only did Moscow oppose colonialism in principle, but the insurgents were fighting Washingtons friends. Had the West offered assistance, there would have been much less need to look to Moscow. this page. Malcolm Rifkind writes the Eastern superpower lacks the ideological grounding to cause international tensions akin to the Soviet Union. It was evident from the very beginning of African independence that individual leaders accepted a form of socialism based on the humanistic aspects of that ideology. Nkrumah was a pan-Africanist the goals of an independent and united Africa took precedence over the socialist revolution. It highlights the impact of the Cold War on their growth and policy performance. This coup de main misfired. The Soviet Union, too, hoped to fill that power vacuum, posing as the patron and armourer of colonial liberation movements. Though often absent from retellings of the Cold War, the interventions and alliances conceived in Southern Africa between the 1960s and 1980s, had a profound and sometimes devastating impact. For more information or to contact an Oxford Sales Representative click here. Both tended to favour ambitious local military men who possessed hard power on the ground. under Siad Barre. Angola During the Cold War: Background . Soviets and Americans were not the only outside actors on the stage of decolonization. But, as in the neighbouring DRC, Soviet support alone was not enough to secure power. Please subscribe or login. On May 27, 1971, a friendship treaty was signed between the two countries, but relations were nevertheless declining. 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. The invasion of Port Said, and the operation to capture the Suez Canal, was launched. Allied in 1969, but soon Rosberg, Carl, and Thomas Callaghy, eds. The CIA wrote off Nkrumah as a vain opportunist and playboy, and in 1966 were believed to have been involved in a coup that toppled him from power. March 1, 2023, 6:08 PM. 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! Communist regimes began to collapse in eastern Europe, and democratic governments rose in East Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, followed by the reunification of West and East Germany under NATO auspices. ", Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism, Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University, Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic, Movimento Popular de Libertacao de Angola (MPLA), "Mubarak set for talks at Kremlin on nuclear and arms trade", William E. Farrell, "Envoy of Moscow Expelled by Egypt". 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." 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. 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. Orwell understood it as a nuclear stalemate between super-states: each possessed weapons of mass destruction and was capable of annihilating the other. He still remembers the schools amphitheatre, where film screenings were held. Both of these regional conflicts continued into the 1980s. African Socialism. Fear of Communism haunted the white minority government of South Africa from the 1950's to the collapse of single party rule in Eastern Europe in 1989. This award-winning book provides a useful framework for analyzing various forms of socialist ideologies and institutional choice in Africa from the 1960s to the 1980s. 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. Fear of Communism haunted the white minority government of South Africa from the 1950's to the collapse of single party rule in Eastern Europe in 1989. African form of socialism, drawing on African traditions than following By midnight, British and French troops had secured the canal zone and sparked fury from the United States and the Soviet Union. For its part the Soviet Union was happy to give military support to the governments of Angola and Mozambique and to the ANC. [14], In a complex civil war with outside interventions, Soviet military aid went to the Movimento Popular de Libertacao de Angola (MPLA). However, most of its attempts to spread Communism were initially focused on Europe and this did not prevent Lenin and Stalin from trying to force all the former territories of the Russian Empire into the Soviet Union. The level of ideological commitment or interest in socialist doctrine varied among all the different governments and movements which received Soviet military aid. by the West for making a public stand against Communism, while at the In Angola a war of succession followed, with three rival nationalist parties fighting for power. Explore technological innovations of the Cold War, How the Cold War helped foster antibiotic resistance. They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. EAST German communist officer uniform NVA COLD WAR RELIC RARE. At times, however, realpolitik acted as a brake. It was hailed as a model junior ally that Moscow was eager to support. The list of external actors also includes the other Scandinavian countries, Yugoslavia, Moscows Eastern European clients, Egypt, and the Peoples Republic of China. 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). The link was not copied. ", Yahia Zoubir, "Soviet policy toward the Western Sahara conflict. This book presents an analysis of the scope and quality of a select number of African states that came to espouse Marxism-Leninism or scientific socialism during their heyday. 1960s / Decolonization of Africa. From the late 1950s, Africans seeking higher education went to a rapidly increasing number of destinations, both within Africa and overseas. France, too, prevaricated. The confrontation that followed, known as the Cuban missile crisis, brought the two superpowers to the brink of war before an agreement was reached to withdraw the missiles. By 1948 the Soviets had installed left-wing governments in the countries of eastern Europe that had been liberated by the Red Army. The Cold War truly began to break down during the administration of Mikhail Gorbachev, who changed the more totalitarian aspects of the Soviet government and tried to democratize its political system. By the mid-1980s, the communist powerhouse was facing an economic crisis, losing a war in Afghanistan and overstretched in Africa. However President John F. Kennedy and his Peace Corps director Sargent Shriver tried even harder than Khrushchev. First published in the early 1980s, this book is essential reading for those interested in identifying why the most orthodox Afro-Marxist regimes of the time chose development strategies rooted in scientific socialism, or variants of Marxism-Leninism. 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. Omissions? [16], The South African government evoked the term rooi gevaar to refer the political and military threat posed by the Soviet Union's support for the guerrilla wings of anti-apartheid movements such as SWAPO and the ANC. Both powers tended to suborn corruptible local strongmen with military backgrounds and authoritarian instincts. The upshot was that the countrys resources remained an asset of the west, and the DRC endured five years of civil war. From 1960, the Soviet Union became involved in several Marxist, African struggles, providing political support, weapons and military training, including to the Peoples Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) in their fight against the Portuguese. [3], After 1953, the continent underwent a rapid process of decolonization, whereby nearly all the colonies became independent nations. The Soviet Union began to establish left-wing governments in the countries of eastern Europe, determined to safeguard against a possible renewed threat from Germany. Historically, communism on the continent was strongest in Egypt, Sudan, Algeria, and South Africa, which had significant European settlement, but such ideas remained foreign to the African masses until the principles of Marxism-Leninism became popular among intellectuals around the time of World War I ( Drew 2014 ). Before the Cold War only one country had and dropped a nuclear bomb, but that would not be the case during the Cold War. The Nixon administration was working behind the scenes with Sadat to bolster his plans to send the Russians home, which they did in July 1972. Above all, it is the USA that most profits from the war. Get 6 issues for 19.99 and receive a 10 gift card* PLUS free access to HistoryExtra.com, Save 70% on the shop price when you subscribe today - Get 13 issues for just $49.99 + FREE access to HistoryExtra.com, Snuffed out democracies and poisoned toothpaste: how the Cold War wreaked havoc in post-colonial Africa, Cold War conflicts played havoc with African politics and snuffed out many fledgling democracies, The CIA brought dollars - and a hitman with poisoned toothpaste. human resources had been so ruthlessly exploited for the sake of profit By 1965, Cuba became a fully communist country and developed close ties to the Soviet Union. The Kremlin supported Gizenga, but did not want to take the international risks involved in delivering material aid to the blockaded Orientale Province. Our Own Special Brand of Socialism: Algeria and the Contest of Modernities in the 1960s., Desai, Ram. Without France, what would you be or do? This was the view of many French people, and of many of the 700,000 European settlers (colons) in Algeria who enjoyed the advantages of French citizenship. In 1986 Mikhail Gorbachev rejected the idea of a revolutionary takeover of the South African government, and advocated a negotiated settlement. The way forward for Africa in the aftermath of the Cold War - the decades-long struggle for supremacy between communist Soviet Union and capitalist US - was uncertain. Byrne, Jeffrey James. Seducing the elected rulers of newly independent states proved the most effective policy for both the United States and the Soviet Union. End of the World War II. However, the Kremlin was reluctant to send Soviet troops because of its fear of a major escalation with NATO powers. Cold War conflicts played havoc with African politics. USSR retreat from Afghanistan and stop funding communist militias in Africa. The action by Britain and France, following Nassers nationalisation of the Suez Canal in July, was ostensibly launched to halt fighting between Egypt and Israel, which had invaded the Sinai Peninsula a week earlier. Their main aim was not socialist revolution, but to be free of military aggression from South Africa and see independence with majority rule throughout the continent. The United States and the Soviet Union began developing intercontinental ballistic missiles, and in 1962 the Soviets began secretly installing missiles in Cuba that could be used to launch nuclear attacks on U.S. cities. The level of ideological commitment or interest in socialist doctrine varied among all the different governments and movements which received Soviet military aid. He went into exile, followed by 1,000 of his Soviet advisors. This sparked the Cuban missile crisis (1962), a confrontation that brought the two superpowers to the brink of war before an agreement was reached to withdraw the missiles. On the other hand, both ideology and realpolitik led the Soviet Union to support those who fought for independence. forces in African countries, th e Cold War actors institutionali zed a violent political culture in postcolonial Africa. France persuaded a sceptical Washington that it was fighting communist-backed insurgents in Algeria; the result was that Sikorsky helicopters, manufactured in the United States and intended for Nato service, were used to hunt down Algerian guerrillas. The money secured the loyalty of Colonel Joseph-Dsir Mobutu (who later renamed himself Mobutu Sese Seko), a ruthless, ambitious and venal chancer whom the CIA believed to be childish and easily led. The highlights this week: A recently concluded Chinese Communist Party leadership meeting offered some hints about an impending . ", Arthur J. Klinghoffer, "The Soviet Union and Angola," (Army War College, 1980), Omajuwa Igho Natufe, "The cold war and the Congo crisis, 1960-1961. During the Cold War Welcomed by President John F Kennedy in 1963, Mobutu was Americas man. Once these movements assumed power, they were termed Afro-Marxist regimes (Ottaway and Ottaway 1986, Keller and Rothchild 1987, Munslow 1986). Khrushchev said it was a three-way contest, the third pole being bourgeois nationalist movements that were inherently anti-imperialist and were demanding decolonization across the globe. James Mulira, "The role of the Soviet Union in the decolonization process of Africa: from Lenin to Brezhnev. In the event, Reagan did not need to commit his country to support South Africas last stand; events inside the Soviet Union were now dictating the outcome of the Cold War in Africa. He emphasised that these links placed a burden of debt upon Cubans that they were duty-bound to repay., young members of guerrilla movements such as, Jean Luc Godard went to Maputo at the request of FRELIMO during this time as well. But could they deliver a golden age for their followers? Soviet and Warsaw Pact aircraft, arms and advisors were flown in to prop up his government. [15] During 1956-1986, as part of the long South African Border War (1966-1990), the Soviets supplied and trained combat units from Namibia (SWAPO) and Angola (MPLA) at the African National Congress (ANC) military training camps in Tanzania. Communist societies believed in redistributing wealth (taking from the rich and giving to the poor) and promoted workers and state-run economies. 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. When we arrived on the Isla de la Juventud [Isle of Youth], we were taken to different rural schools, they were all close to plantations of limes, papayas and yams. The point was not lost on Soviet propagandists. by the West for making a public stand against Communism, while at the [25] It proclaimed Marxism-Leninism as its official ideology and became a close ally of Moscow. After South Africa became a republic in 1961 and was expelled from the Commonwealth of Nations, relations were very cold. 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 1959 the US state department was convinced that democratic Africa was fragile and prepared to embrace authoritarian but reliable alternatives. Most incidents came during the Cold War, when the US and the Soviet Union battled for influence across the continent. This bibliographical essay focuses on the Cold War crises in Africa. 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 . The United States had won on points. In 1991, USSR implode and the 15 republics become independent states, marking therefore the end of the cold war. 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