Treasure islands
Feb 18, 2022
2 minutes
JOHN LEWIS
NE of the weirdest aspects of the Cold War was the way that it formed unlikely exchange programmes between far-flung nations. You’d find Ethiopian sailors training in Azerbaijan, Algerian engineers in St Petersburg and Cuban musicians playing residencies in Czechoslovakia. And when the African island nation of Cape Verde became independent in 1975, the fighters of its Soviet-backed
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