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Fonseca and Marcos state (2013: 210) that “with the Cold War under way, there was, however, no substantial interference from the superpowers in this process.” On the other hand, the superpowers’ actions, attitudes, and anti-colonial positions inflected the course and outcome of the decolonization process. As Betts (2004: 36) puts it, “the Cold War activities of the US and Soviet Union affected the course of decolonization, but they were in no causal factors in its occurrence”.