Any good documentaries, movies, etc. on the Western Sahara-Morocco conflict. Specifically targeting how the American and Soviet Union affected it?
I don't think the USA or the soviets had anything to do with that. Basically Morocco took advantage of the political crisis in which Spain was involved (Franco just died ) and that's all.
>>3135016
It's not talked about much, but it was a small proxy war
http://carnegieendowment.org/2009/06/17/united-states-morocco-and-western-sahara-dispute-pub-23275
>>3135016
Algeria was a sort of pro-socialist block state, Morocco was a cuck of USA and the Polisario Front was the WS independentist movement, backed by Algeria, that started their political and small-scale military campaign for Independence from Spain in the late '60.
While Franco was agonizing Morocco, backed by USA, orchestrated a nationalistic '''civilian voluntary march''' towards WS called the 'Green March' with the purpose of flooding the country with ethnic moroccans, forcing the Spanish Colonial administration out and annexing WS. It worked and Spain abandoned WS, which also triggered Mauritanian occupation of part of the south of WS (although they were later removed by Morocco). Meanwhile the people of WS, of the Polisario Front, continued their fight for Independence, this time against Morocco, and this time in a much, much larger full scale guerrilla war for decades until a truce was signed leaving Morocco with de facto control of most of the country and most of the Saharui people living in refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria, near the border of WS.