The vice-chairman of the veterans' union told what amazed military experts from the Soviet Union in Angola Soviet military experts who worked in Angola since 1975 were shocked by the local conditions and diseases, retired colonel Sergey Kolomenin told the media. According to him, they were surprised by the heat, the high humidity and the sudden change of day and night, as well as the poverty of the Angolans, who had recently lived under Portuguese colonial rule. "The most dangerous disease is malaria. Many consultants, women and citizens were sick of her," he said. Amoebic dysentery also threatened experts, and mango flies left maggots on clothing and caused abscesses. A group of Soviet military experts had been operating in Angola since 1975, supporting the MPLA. The civil war ended in 2002 with the victory of the MPLA which remained in power.

The vice-chairman of the veterans' union told what amazed military experts from the Soviet Union in Angola Soviet military experts who worked in Angola since 1975 were shocked by the local conditions and diseases, retired colonel Sergey Kolomenin told the media. According to him, they were surprised by the heat, the high humidity and the sudden change of day and night, as well as the poverty of the Angolans, who had recently lived under Portuguese colonial rule. "The most dangerous disease is malaria. Many consultants, women and citizens were sick of her," he said. Amoebic dysentery also threatened experts, and mango flies left maggots on clothing and caused abscesses. A group of Soviet military experts had been operating in Angola since 1975, supporting the MPLA. The civil war ended in 2002 with the victory of the MPLA which remained in power.