Angolan Civil War

The Angolan Civil War was perhaps the greatest proxy war of the Cold War, having begun with the Angolan War of Independence and surely sparked into a war between the UNITA and MPLA.

The MPLA was one of the anti-colonial guerrilla groups which began to slant towards Communism, having become an ally of the Soviet Union and a military ally of Castro's Cuba. The UNITA were an anti-colonial guerrilla group which broke Communist ideological ties and allied with South Africa militarily and America economically and logistically.

The MPLA secured control of the government but UNITA fought a decades-long vicious war to overthrow them under the famous and battle-hardened general Doctor Jonas Savimbi, known as "the most ferocious looking military leader alive" at the time.

The war ended after UNITA became isolated by communist appeasers diplomatically and the political strife within their other remaining ally South Africa. This is because Jonas Savimbi was killed in vicious firefight, resulting in the remaining UNITA becoming a peaceful political party to oppose the MPLA in Angolan politics.