Return to the Thirld World

The upheavals that toppled the East European regimes in 1989 exposed the realities of the communist system. Denied for decades, especially in the Third World, the truth was finally exposed. Because it was the enemy of the old colonial powers, the Soviet Union was seen as “not all that bad” by many Third World radicals. The notion that the enemy of my enemy must be my friend was popular through much of the Third World, but this naive Machiavellianism proved to be inadequate for a c...