Editing MPLA (section)

==Foreign support==
During both the [[Portuguese Colonial War]] and the [[Angolan Civil War]], the MPLA received military and humanitarian support primarily from the governments of [[Algeria]], [[Brazil]],<ref name="Brazilian pilots">{{Cite web|url=https://irp.fas.org/world/para/docs/unita/en0510991.htm|title=KWACHA UNITA PRESS THE NATIONAL UNION FOR THE TOTAL INDEPENDENCE OF ANGOLA UNITA STANDING COMMITTEE OF THE POLITICAL COMMISSION 1999 – Year of Generalised Popular Resistance – COMMUNIQUE NO. 39/CPP/99|website=Federation of American Scientists|access-date=3 December 2022|archive-date=5 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220805192503/https://irp.fas.org/world/para/docs/unita/en0510991.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> the [[Bulgarian People's Republic]], [[East Germany]],<ref name="bulgaria">{{cite book|last=Howe|first=Herbert M|year=2004|title=Ambiguous Order: Military Forces In African States|pages=81}}</ref> [[Cape Verde]], [[Czechoslovak Socialist Republic]],<ref name="czech">{{cite book|last=Wright|first=George|year=1997|title=The Destruction of a Nation: United States Policy Towards Angola Since 1945|pages=9–10}}</ref> [[People's Republic of the Congo|the Congo]], [[Cuba]], [[Guinea-Bissau]], [[Mexico]], [[Morocco]], the [[Mozambican People's Republic]], [[Nigeria]], [[North Korea]], the [[Polish People's Republic]], [[China]], the [[Romanian Socialist Republic]], [[São Tomé and Príncipe]], [[Somalia]],<ref name="romania">{{cite book|last=Nzongola-Ntalaja|first=Georges|author2=Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein|year=1986|title=The Crisis in Zaire|pages=193–194}}</ref> the [[Soviet Union]], [[Sudan]],<ref name="czech"/> [[Tanzania]],<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mongabay.com/history/angola/angola-ascendancy_of_the_mpla.html|title=Angola-Ascendancy of the MPLA|website=www.mongabay.com|access-date=6 July 2017}}</ref> [[History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi|Libya]]<ref>{{Citation |first=Mahmoud |last=Gebril |title=Imagery and Ideology in U.S. Policy Toward Libya 1969–1982 |year=1988 |page=70}}</ref> and [[SFR Yugoslavia]]. While China did briefly support the MPLA,<ref name="china">{{cite book|last=China Study Centre (India)|year=1964|title=China Report|pages=25}}</ref> it also actively supported the MPLA's enemies, the FNLA and later UNITA, during the war for independence and the civil war. The switch was the result of [[Sino-Soviet split|tensions between China and the Soviet Union]] for dominance of the communist bloc, which almost led to war.<ref name="foreign">{{cite book|last=Walker|first=John Frederick|year=2004|title=A Certain Curve of Horn: The Hundred-Year Quest for the Giant Sable Antelope of Angola|pages=146}}</ref><ref name="otherforeign">{{cite book|last=Nzongola-Ntalaja|first=Georges|author2=Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein|year=1986|title=The Crisis in Zaire|pages=194}}</ref>