The USSR, together with USA and Britain, were among the original sponsors of the creation of Israel. There are quotes from Soviet leaders where they describe even the racist terrorists of the Stern Gang as "freedom fighters." Within a few years, though, the Soviets made a complete 180-degree turn, and besides attacking Israel, attacked even principled Jewish leftists who were anti-zionist, embracing the crudest of racist anti-Semitic stereotypes. I am under no illusion that the USSR’s politics were based on any principles. Whether you agree with Marxism or not, it IS a system of principles, and as far as I am concerned they abandoned it in the 1920s. So how to explain this switch? Their politicians may have been unprincipled, but they weren’t stupid. How can the turnabout be explained? What did they hope to gain? One book I read ascribed the change to "Arab oil," but the USSR was itself the world's biggest oil-producing nation for most of its history.
What reasons could there be?
2007-10-29
09:28:27
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