orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) (04/30/85)
> In article <153@ttrdc.UUCP> mjk@ttrdc.UUCP (Mike Kelly) writes: > > The reaction of Soviet officials to charges of "Marxist" Sandinistas > >is laughter. To them, the Sandinistas are reformists and bourgeois social > >democrats. > > > >Mike Kelly > > If that's the case, then what is doing Daniel Ortega (The Sandinista leader) > in Moscow asking for 200 million dollars?. Since when does the USSR give money > away to "bourgeois social democrats"? ... > -- > Eduardo Krell UCLA Computer Science Department > ekrell@ucla-locus.arpa ..!{sdcrdcf,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!ekrell Is it true that the Soviet Union only gives foreign aid to died in the wool Marxists-Leninists? I think it would be hard to support such a contention given that Egypt received Soviet aid to build the Aswan Dam, given that India has received Soviet aid, and other countries have received Soviet aid. Is it true that once Soviet aid is accepted by a country that the country is "in the Soviet orbit" forever? Again, this would be a very difficult contention to substantiate. India has and is receiving Soviet aid yet has never been in the "Soviet orbit". Egypt received Soviet aid to build the Aswan Dam and for military purposes but then booted the Soviets out and now are the second biggest recipient of American aid after Israel. Then there is the notable case of China's Communist Party which received Soviet aid for a period after the Revolution (although Stalin in fact did not significantly aid Mao before the Revolution since he thought they would lose) but is now antagonistic toward the Soviets with both sides amassing huge armies and military forces on the Sino-Soviet border. Probably the best way to insure that Nicaragua relies primarily upon the Soviets for aid is to do exactly what Reagan wants to do: launch an all-out trade embargo against Nicaragua similar to the one we have had against Cuba for over 20 years. One can note the success of the Cuban trade embargo in prying Cuba from the Soviet orbit................... tim sevener whuxl!orb "If it's not a fish, throw it in the water and call it one!"