Die Rooi Gevaar

Overview

SWAPO and the MPLA were supported by Moscow. We meet a number of Soviet soldiers who fought in Angola. We investigate the conviction shared by so many South Africans in the seventies and eighties, that we were threatened on every side by communists. Photo comics had Russians as bad guys. The church published anti-communist literature. “Rooi Gevaar” was an everyday term. On the other side we hear the story of a Moscow family whose grandfather fought in the Anglo-Boer War.