military translator igor ignatovich worked for 3 years in a training camp for namibian partisans, whiched in angola. swapa is a people 's organization of southwest africa, that's what it was officially called, it had a military wing which had the designation plan, the namibian people's liberation army in these training centers for several months we trained partisans in a number of specialties: artillerymen, signalmen, medics, tank crews, after training in training centers in angola, they went to an operation in namibia, a deserted area, it’s about three hundred kilometers, 300 km across the desert, how much you need to wear take with you water, food, plus weapons, explosives, ammunition, well, everything else, radio stations, all this is a huge burden. we saw this and we understood, so we also made every effort to prepare them efficiently, so that they would have some chance was, the camps in which soviet instructors worked were often visited by the future first president of independent namibia, sem nuyoma, he visited all the training centers, he visited the military field hospital, whi