SolidarioGb | History of Liberation Wars | 23rd June 2026 I. The Colonial Context: Five Centuries of Domination Portuguese Colonisation Mozambique was colonised by Portugal from the sixteenth century, when Portuguese explorers established trading posts and feitorias along the Indian Ocean coast. Unlike other colonial powers, Portugal never developed significant modern infrastructure in its AfricanContinue reading “THE MOZAMBICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE (1964–1975): A Complete History”
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Semyon Timoshenko Semyon Timoshenko was born in Bessarabia on 18th February, 1895. At the beginning of the First World War he served as a cavalryman in the Russian Army on the Eastern Front. Timoshenko was a Bolshevik and supported the forces that overthrew Tsar Nicholas II. After the Russian Revolution he joined the Red Army and took part in the Russian Civil War. While defending Tsaritsyn against the White Army he met JosephContinue reading “In a day like today…”
