Trade with Soviet Union
Sir, — According to Alex Hoggan (January 31) trade help from America and Western Europe “beginning in 1918 before the Bolsheviks gained control of more than a fraction of Russia” has “created a formidable Soviet economic and military power.” What nonsense. Between 1918 and 1922, 13 European nations, plus America, Canada and Japan, sent in total 300,000 troops to invade and bring down the infant Soviet State, and this folly poisons EastWest relations to this day. An estimated 14 to 20 million Soviet citizens died in 1918-22 through this fighting, plus the resultant disruption, disease and starvation. That sort of “peaceful trade” and “bridge-building” was in reality an intervene, isolate and destroy policy. America and its allies are still using it (with many modern refinements) against Albania, Libya, North Korea, Vietnam, Kampuchea, Laos, Cuba, and Nicaragua. — Yours, etc., M. T. MOORE. January 31, 1986.
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Press, 3 February 1986, Page 12
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147Trade with Soviet Union Press, 3 February 1986, Page 12
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