Zimbabwe African National Union - Relationship With Armed Wing

Relationship With Armed Wing

ZANLA was ZANU's military wing. Before 1980, it was very heavily dependent on China and other communist countries for finance and for arms supplies - and indeed for weapons training. Thus, it is easy to understand why ZANU wanted it to appear that they were receptive to Communist and Maoist ideology.

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