ALIEN WARS - The Soviet Union's Aggressions against the World, 1919 - 1989 by Sarin, Gen. Oleg, and Col. Lev Dvoretsky

Novato 1996, Presidio Pr US first edition, hard bound in dj, Fine/Fine condition, 6x9, xiv, 243 pages, notes, bibliog, index, illus. --------------------------------------------------------From the time of the Russian Revolution until the demise of its Communist government in 1992, the Soviet Union interfered in the politics of its neighbors and many countries in distant lands. Had she kept her meddling to relatively peaceful political pursuits, the world would not have been in such danger over these seventy years. She wanted world conquest for Communism at any cost, however, and so embarked on military intervention when political subversion was not enough.--------------------------------------------------------This book, researched from previously secret archives, details the Soviets' military follies, from revolutionary times when Ukraine was added to the new USSR to the final disaster of Afghanistan. In rapid order, the authors tell of Stalin's decision to become a participant in the Spanish Civil War, the overt and stupid aggression against tiny Finland, the immoral pact with Hitler that led to the German Soviet dismemberment of Poland, the joint North Korean and Soviet attack on South Korea in 1950, her participation in the second and third Vietnam wars, the ignoble adventures in the Middle East and Africa, her arming of Cuba that almost resulted in World Wax III, the brutal suppression of nationalist reforms in Hungary and Czechoslovakia, and the final blow against the Afghan people in 1979.------------------------------------------------------------In addition to these uses of Soviet troops in combat situations, the USSR supplied immense amounts of munitions and military supplies to these countries and many nations elsewhere, like Nicaragua and China. All of this was kept in deepest secrecy from the Soviet people who had to endure poverty and needless deaths and injuries to the sons sent to foreign countries at the whim of the old men of the Kremlin.Alien Wars presents in one volume provocative material previously only speculated about or hinted at by the foreign press as well as the governments of the free world, written by two former insiders.