`  The Angolan Army FAPLA begins in July of 1987 a great offensive against the UNITA, called  ``Greeting to October`` in direction to Mavinga, and without the Cuban participation that  were not agree with these plans. As well as it had foreseen by the Cuban Command, the FAPLA  moved dangerously away from its lines, it wore away, and in September the UNITA with the  SADF counterattack near the river Lomba. The FAPLA in October retires defeated toward  Cuito Cuanavale, and the government of Angola requests again the help from Cuba. In November  15, 1987, the Cuban Army decides to intervene in the battle, and they sent to Cuito armored troops, to avoid that  the city falls, these troops advance under the covering of MiG-21 and  MiG-23. The troops of the UNITA and the SADF during their ``Operación Hooper`` carry out  strong attacks to Cuito Cuanavale in January 12 and February of 1988, 14 intents to penetrate  in Cuito Cuanavale without success.     The whole time, a squadron of MiG-21BIS acts intensely from Menongue AFB, at 200km of Cuito, destroying armored, artillery and enemy troops. Other MiG-21BIS arrive of reinforcement, and  they made more than 1,000 combat flights during the battle. The SADF were forced by the MiGs  to only move at night, and to disguise very well by day. Their howitzers G5 and G6 retire to  areas at 35km of Cuito, near to the maximum of their reach. Only of January to March of 1988 the MiG-21s and MiG-23s complete 1,283 flight missions in Cuito Cuanavale, carrying out 722  bombing missions and 561 missions of air covering, they throw 358 ton of bombs and 4,000 rockets  C-5 and other ammunition, causing immense losses in men and teams. Although officially the SADF  only recognized 31 losses during Cuito Cuanavale, unofficial Southafricans sources calculate them  in 715 . The last attack to Cuito the SADF made it in March 23, it fails, and the Cuban Command  estimates that the battle is already won. Then began the Cuban offensive toward the south, until  the frontier. The Cuban advance was covered by 80 MiG-21s and MiG-23s of the FAR, and the  Mirages F1 of the SAAF prefer not to appear more in the front. When the Cuban army was arriving  to the frontier with Namibia and hit with MiG-23s the Calueque dam in June 27 of 1988,  Southafrica requests the peace ( Is important to say that the reasons besides the attack of the  dam with MIG-23MLs is that the MIG-23BNs that were actually the ones to take the mission were to  the drift when the ship where they traveled to Angola was damaged) , and after negotiations, it  is signed in December of 1988 the agreement that brings the independence to Namibia and the  democratization of Southafrica.    Does this says anything to anybody, “Democratization”, look what they were forced to do. Even  the fall of the Apartheid is Cubans work.   On the other hand, the ambassador of Southafrica Mrs. Thenjiwe Mtintso, recognized the paper  of Cuba in the definitive liberation of Africa and she surrendered tribute to those more than  two thousand combatants of Cuban internationalists killed in combat.  Please search what the 435/78 resolution is. It will tell a lot.  And about the inscription of the MIG-23 in Calueque, you could be sure I will study about. There something more I want to say, and is about the Soviet presence. The Soviets only help  in logistics, not in man power, maybe some Russian general could be seen in operations, but  no a single soviet soldier get in combats.   And something more please: already today the diplomats that were active in Southafrica  by  then recognized the Cuban victory and even some military. What your are trying to probe, nothing  but emptiness.   The historians that don't look that way , or that deny it, we can consider them as reviewers of little credibility.  Please if it is not a nuisance for you, go to the Granma newspaper official website and look  for it, please, not to read, because I know that you don´t believe in them, but to see the  pictures taked during  the battle, to get that unequivocal expression of  victory.  OverG`