<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398031" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Freedom Park</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Build your monument to a war<br>that you have lost at Cuito Cuanavale<br>and try to deceive the world<br>about your victory</div><div style="margin:10px 0">which was rather your huge loss<br>and hail Russians and Cubans as your heroes<br>and we who have paid the cost<br>knows where victory really laid </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and that no bugle ever played its last farewell<br>to the enemy we sent to hell<br>and although no one mourns our dead<br>most of us live on instead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We do not need to be on any<br>honour wall <br>or to be associated<br>with your heroes<br>who mowed down people<br>praying in a church<br>and set off bombs in the street.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We never lost any battle<br>nor a war<br>and our honour is in the lives <br>of every man, women and child <br>who in a way are still free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Reference: “The results of the campaign up to April 1988 were 4,785 killed on the Cuban/Faplan side, with 94 tanks and hundreds of combat vehicles destroyed, against 31 South Africans killed in action,3 tanks destroyed (SADF tanks entered the war after the Lomba River campaign) and 11 SADF armoured cars and troop carriers lost. A total of 9 Migs were destroyed and only 1 SAAF Mirage shot down.” Jannie Geldenhuys.1994. At the front. P240. Johanathan Ball Publishers.]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398031" data-title="Freedom Park de Gert Strydom" data-description="Build your monument to a war that you have lost at Cuito Cuanavale and try to deceive the world about your victory which was rather your huge loss and hail Russians and Cubans as your heroes and we who have paid the cost knows where victory reall..."></div> </div> </div>

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