In 198, in 198, a young white woman from Pretoria, Suu Dobson, was recruited by the African National Congress (ANC) as a spy in the South African discrimination.
As part of her goal, she was taken to Moscow for expert training.
“This was a very intensive training course,” said Dobson, who is now retired and living in England. “(In it), things like observance, secret writing, photography, strategy to go out.
She didn’t have much free time, but now she was able to spend a few days in a Leningrad called St. Petersburg.
“The winter should be 1986 and everything was icy,” she remembers. “They were quite beautiful.”
The next year, when she returned to South Africa, she was appointed as a journalist in the information bureau at the promotion branch of the discrimination. The job gave her a minister and other high-profile information. But in the 19th in, the authority Autherites discovered the connection of her family with ANC and her homepage flocked.
“I was told to live wherever I was, and I was going to return to the plane with a person in foreign affairs, which was a pleasure for the intelligence department, and I decided that I would not hang around,” said Dobson, who has never caught South Africa.
“The game was over, and I fled the night … I had to go to the festival and the Soviet diplomats helped me and put me on the UK.”
Dobson said that she had enough to comment on the current full-level attack on Ukraine in Russia, “she does not know enough about the subtlety of the situation.
Western powers have widely condemned the modern Russia attack in our neighborhood, but sympathy for the Kremlin may have come in an unexpected quarter: Africa.
In 2022, only half the African governments protested Russia, Russia President Vladimir Putin started the war.
Experts say that trend is in the historic championship of the Moscow’s anti -empire.
Russia’s shock against the Western influence of Africa is the 7th century. If other European power Robbed and split During the African conflict, the volume, the Russian empire, favored his colleague Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia.
However, according to the Ukrainian historian Olaxander Polynichev, the Russian participation is very exaggerated.
“Most of these stories have returned to the Russian adventure, Nikolai Lionie, who came to Ethiopia in the early 195995, and tried to go to the circle under the Ethiopian Emperor’s Melanic II,” Polnanichev told Al Jazir.
“Italy’s Ethiopian resistance, Liontiv, claimed to have played on the battlefield.
Leentiv is often given the credit for paying weapons and ammunition shipments that help to overtake the Italopia to the Italopia.
“The Russian government has sent these weapons at the request of Leentiv – the old Birdon rifles are no longer required by the Russian troops, who are adopting new Mosin rifles – they never reached Ethiopia in time,” said Polianichev. “The Italian people were taken into custody by the Italians who transported them, and the shipment did not come to Ethiopia until the war was over.”
Although Russia’s naval capabilities meant that Africa had never been a realistic prospect for himself, which in 1889 did not stop Kosax’s band leader Nikolai Aishinov from declaring Russian land. The French, however, had already established a colony, and they bombed the warship and removed Ashinov’s settlement.
Later, during the cold war, the Sovieties Aided Although friendly governments in Angola, Mozagik and Kong are not always successful in the struggle against groups against western powers.
The USSR was also an Egyptian associate under General Gammal Abdel Nasser, assisting weapons deals and infrastructure.
USSR’s American historian Kinberly St. Julian-Warnon explained, “The Soviet Union had the ideological and practical intentions of supporting the anti-colonial movements and the global southern dissolution.
“On the one hand, he was fighting with the US and Western Europe to show that socialism has shown the excellence of society and the government.
“On the other hand, the Soviet Union benefited from the trade agreement that exported its goods to the Aloid countries and gave the USSR a range of natural resources in the southern southern Soviet infrastructure projects in Africa.
As a part of reaching African countries, Patris Lumumba University in the name of the Congress leader was opened in Moscow, where African students were given 500 scholarships every year since the 60s.
But some said they experienced racism. In 93 in63, the student of Adam, Asre-Ado, was beaten by alleged inter-caste relations by showing rare protests on the Red Square.
“It was a clear contradiction of the Soviet propaganda in their country, who promoted the country as an opponent of European colonial powers,” said St. Julian-Wernon.
“Sometimes reports about racism in the Soviet Union went through the Western media and reduced the Soviet attacks on American black-and-American racist, educated in the Soviet Union and the Russian Federation despite the racism.
The propaganda of racism depicted the USSR that the resources of South African resources, while the Sovieties supported the ANC and its armed wing, Umkhonto Wesizway (MK) since the 60s.
Dobson said, “Of course, I think that the Soviet Union will not forget the role of the Soviet Union to enable ANC to come to power,” Dobson said.
“I think there is something that is very honorable and honorable, and the USSR has significant historical relations.
The ANC is currently the ruling party of South Africa and while maintaining a neutral role, the government has avoided completely protesting Russia, perhaps many senior members of the ANC trained or studied in the USSR, which is seen as a successor to Russia.
‘Russia’s appeal for stories of anti -colonies’
More over-Russian support is visible at the grassroots level.
In February, a small rally in the South African Ukrainian people in Durban interrupted the Russian flag and the Viral Pop Hit Mem Songs, the Sigma Boy, was interrupted by the Counter Protector.
There are no unfamiliar views elsewhere in the Russian flags.
Moscow has forgiven the debt of many African countries, and has provided boots to solve security concerns between countries like Mali and Central African Republic, where local leaders have supported the allegations of torture by the Russian rent.
The appeal of “Russia’s anti -colony” is in the usefulness of Yurisa and the ruling elite, which is ready to accept or accept their own political sensations, “the historian Poliyanchev said.
“It is not acknowledged because in the past Russia was really ‘anti -empire’, but at present it actively opposed to the west, while Russia’s closet will easily light up very easily.