Author: Niko Vorobyov
Published on: 19/03/2025 | 00:00:00
AI Summary:
Sue Dobson, a young white woman from Pretoria, was recruited by the African National Congress (ANC) to be a spy within the South African apartheid regime. As part of her mission, she was flown to Moscow for specialist training. The job gave her access to ministers and other high-profile information. Dobson’s memoir is titled Burned: The Spy South Africa Never Caught. She said she did not know enough about the “nuances and subtleties of the situation” to comment on Russia’s current full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Only half of African governments condemned Russia at the United Nations in 2022. Ukrainian historian of the Russian Empire says Russian involvement has been greatly exaggerated. Nikolai Leontiev arrived in Ethiopia in early 1895 and bluffed his way into the inner circle of ethiopian Emperor Menelik II. Soviets aided friendly governments in Angola, Mozambique and the Congo in conflicts. The USSR was also an ally of Egypt under General Gamal Abdel Nasser. Soviet-style socialism was to be a blueprint for creating economies and governments of new states. In 1963, Ghanaian student Edmund Assare-Addo was reportedly beaten to death over an alleged interracial relationship, prompting a rare protest on Red Square. “This was a glaring contradiction to the Soviet propaganda in their home countries,” said St Julian-Varnon. Russian flags are not an unfamiliar sight elsewhere on the continent. Moscow has forgiven the debts of several African countries. It is not taken for granted because Russia was truly ‘anti-imperialist’ in the past.
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