received military support from the united states and the apartheid regime of south africa and the fnla toward the united states. france, zaire and other western countries. the fnla and unito, having actually formed a coalition, sought to eliminate the mpla from the political arena by military means. after recognizing angola, we naturally sent a fairly large group of military advisers, which helped a lot in repelling an attack from the south. with the experience of our advisors, with the courage of the cuban soldier. a lot of people died there; among our specialists there were much more casualties than in previous and subsequent years. the angolans themselves said that this is our stalingrad , because in fact the small town of quita on the quit river, it became, well, practically stalingrad, where everything was completely destroyed, bombed, destroyed by artillery shelling, but nevertheless people held on, went on the attack , retreated, but in the end, the south africans realized that this would not lead to anything good, because their... troops, with the support of mercenaries, were l