# Eastern Revolt

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{{Short description|Angolan nationalist organization}}
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| name             = Eastern Revolt<br/>{{langx|pt|'''Revolta do Leste'''}}
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| leader           = [Daniel Chipenda](/source/Daniel_Chipenda)
| foundation       = 1973
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| dissolved        = 16 February 1975
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| split            = {{flagicon image|Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (bandeira).svg|size=22px}} [MPLA](/source/Popular_Movement_for_the_Liberation_of_Angola)
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| merged           = {{flagicon image|Bandeira da FNLA.svg|size=22px}} [FNLA](/source/National_Liberation_Front_of_Angola)
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| country          = [Angola](/source/Angola)
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| allies           = {{flagicon image|Bandeira da FNLA.svg|size=22px}} [FNLA](/source/National_Liberation_Front_of_Angola)<br>{{flag|USSR}}<br>{{flag|South Africa|1928}}<br>{{flag|Zambia}}
| opponents        = {{flagicon image|Movimento Popular de Libertação de Angola (bandeira).svg|size=22px}} [MPLA](/source/Popular_Movement_for_the_Liberation_of_Angola)<br>{{flagicon|Portugal}} [Portugal](/source/Estado_Novo_(Portugal))
| battles          = [Angolan War of Independence](/source/Angolan_War_of_Independence)
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The '''Eastern Revolt''' ({{langx|pt|'''Revolta do Leste'''}}; '''RDL''') is an [Angola](/source/Angola)n nationalist organization that fought in the [war of independence](/source/Angolan_War_of_Independence) from [Portugal](/source/Portugal) under the leadership of [Daniel Chipenda](/source/Daniel_Chipenda).<ref name="overview">[http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-627.html Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola-Workers' Party] Country-data</ref> The RDL drew its support from the [Ovimbundu](/source/Ovimbundu) ethnic group.<ref name="zambiaaid">Westad, Odd Arne. ''The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions and the Making of Our Times'', 2005. Page 217.</ref>

In May 1966, Chipenda, then a member of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola ([MPLA](/source/MPLA)), established the Eastern Front, significantly expanding the MPLA's reach in Angola. When the EF collapsed, Chipenda and MPLA leader [Agostinho Neto](/source/Agostinho_Neto) each blamed the other's factions. In 1972, the [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union) allied with Chipenda's faction, giving him aid. The Eastern Revolt also received aid from the governments of [Zambia](/source/Zambia)<ref name="zambiaaid"/> and [South Africa](/source/South_Africa).<ref name="split">Stewart Lloyd-Jones and António Costa Pinto. ''The Last Empire: Thirty Years of Portuguese Decolonisation'', 2003. Pages 27-29.</ref> Chipenda left the MPLA in 1973, founding the Eastern Revolt with 1,500 former MPLA followers.<ref name="george">George, Edward. ''The Cuban Intervention In Angola, 1965-1991: from Che Guevara to Cuito Cuanavale'', 2005. Page 46.</ref> He opposed the MPLA's [mestizo](/source/mestizo)-leadership and was wary of the Soviet Union, despite its support.<ref name="overview"/>

In 1973, the Soviet Union invited Neto to [Moscow](/source/Moscow) and told him Chipenda planned to assassinate him.<ref name="george"/> Although Chipenda joined the [National Liberation Front of Angola](/source/National_Liberation_Front_of_Angola) (FNLA) in September 1974,<ref name="soviet">Bennett, Andrew. ''Condemned to Repetition?: The Rise, Fall, and Reprise of Soviet-Russian Military Interventionism'', 1999. Page 152.</ref> the Eastern Revolt's existence continued and RDL forces fought against the MPLA in February 1975.<ref name="split"/>

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Category:Rebel groups in Angola
Category:Angolan War of Independence
Category:Cold War

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