Russia–Zimbabwe relations
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russia-zimbabwe-relations-265-803987
title:
Russia–Zimbabwe relations
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Russia – Zimbabwe relations date back to the mid-1960s, during the Rhodesian Bush War. The Soviet Union supported Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union, and supplied them with arms; Robert Mugabe's attempts to gain Soviet support for his Zimbabwe African National Union were rebuffed, leading him to enter into relations with Soviet rival Beijing. Throughout the 1980s Zimbabwean relations with the USSR were notoriously cold. Mugabe "stonewalled" the Soviets "for ten months" rather than es
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Bilateral relations
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia%E2%80%93Zimbabwe_relations
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2023-06-12T21:58:43Z
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