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== Soviet military advisors ==
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The [[Soviet Union]] deployed military advisors in places like [[International response to the Spanish Civil War#Soviet Union|Spain]], [[China]], and [[Angola]]. "The 1976 treaty of friendship and cooperation provided for Soviet-Angolan military cooperation in strengthening the mutual defense capacity. Moscow immediately provided weaponry and supplies, and some 500 military advisors."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Mott|first1=William H.|title=Soviet Military Assistance: An Empirical Perspective|series=Contributions in military studies, ISSN 0883-6884|issue=207|location=Westport, Connecticut|publisher=Greenwood Press|date=2001|page=155|isbn=9780313310225}}</ref>

"The Soviet Union also sent about 1500 military advisors to [[China]] during this period [1937-1939]. Included were some of the [[Red Army]]'s best officers [...] [[Georgii Zhukov]] [...] [[Vasily Chuikov|Vasilii I. Chuikov] [...] [[Pavel Batitsky|P.F. Batitsky]] [...] [[Andrey Vlasov|Andrey A. Vlasov]] [...]. Like Spain, China served as a training ground for Soviet officers."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Garver|first1=John W.|chapter=The Sino-Soviet Alliance of 1937-1939|title=Chinese-Soviet Relations, 1937-1945: The Diplomacy of Chinese Nationalism|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_eddVnC3paoC|location=New York|publisher=Oxford University Press|date=1988|page=40| isbn=9780195363746|access-date=11 September 2020}}</ref>