ABSTRACT
The Soviet Union sent a trade union delegation to Angola in February 1976 to help organize workers' commissions to run the factories, as a basis for postwar Soviet-Angolan cooperation was being established before the termination of hostilities. The Soviet Union has been assisting Angola in many areas. It provides military equipment, including missiles, jet aircraft and naval vessels, and it trains the army and pilots. It helps organize trade unions, the banking system, electrification, the state-owned oil company, cotton and wheat production and shipyards and it assists in economic and energy planning. The Soviet Union has repeatedly praised the course of Angola's political evolution. The close relationship with the Soviet Union led Angola to turn against China. Ilidio Tome Alves Machado preferred extensive nationalization, including the property of Gulf Oil, and he favored closer ties to the Soviet Union.
