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Upon hearing of the coup, Neto, who was in Montreal, Canada at the time, proclaimed, "Our victory."[1] Neto had only 3,000 militants under his command when officers overthrew the Caetano government.[2]
Daniel Chipenda, a member of the MPLA, established the Eastern Front, significantly expanding the MPLA's reach in Angola, in May 1966. When the EF collapsed Chipenda and Neto each blamed the other's factions. In 1972 the Soviet Union allied with Chipenda's faction, giving him aid. The Eastern Revolt also received aid from the governments of Zambia[3] and South Africa.[4] Chipenda left the MPLA in 1973, founding the Eastern Revolt with 1,500 former MPLA followers.[4] He opposed the MPLA's mestizo-leadership and was wary of the Soviet Union, despite its support.[5]
In 1973 the Soviet Union invited Neto to Moscow and told him Chipenda planned to assassinate him.[4] Although Chipenda joined the FNLA in September 1974[6] the Eastern Revolt's existence continued and RDL forces fought against the MPLA in February 1975.[4]
- ^ Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja and Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein. The Crisis in Zaire, 1986. Pages 193-194.
- ^ Kitchen, Helen A. Africa, from Mystery to Maze, 1976. Page 96.
- ^ Westad, Odd Arne. The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times, 2005. Page 217.
- ^ a b c d Stewart Lloyd-Jones and António Costa Pinto. The Last Empire: Thirty Years of Portuguese Decolonisation, 2003. Pages 27-29.
- ^ Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola-Workers' Party Country-data
- ^ Bennett, Andrew. Condemned to Repetition?: The Rise, Fall, and Reprise of Soviet-Russian Military Interventionism, 1999. Page 152.
