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An introduction to and overview of our sixth season: the story of Angola, Cuba, and apartheid South Africa's Cold War showdown.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New episodes drop September 22. This season, Cuba sends an army to defend newly independent Angola from the combined forces of apartheid South Africa, the CIA, and one of the most infamous warlords of Africa.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wounded but not destroyed, Cambodia staggers into the 21st century.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vietnam ends Democratic Kampuchea and the US backs the Khmer Rouge.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Khmer Rouge horrors spiral toward conflict with an ex-comrade: Vietnam.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cambodia slips into darkness, as the Khmer Rouge seize the country.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The short-lived reign of the Khmer Republic; the end of Nixon.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One Cambodian coup, two US invasions and an unlikely American friend: China.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nixon and Kissinger put Cambodia on the menu.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sihanouk struggles to keep Cambodia out of LBJ's war in Vietnam.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacyLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices