Soviet Involvement in The Third World
Some countries in the Third World had pro-Soviet governments during the Cold War. In the political terminology of the Soviet Union, these were "countries moving along the socialist road of development", as opposed to the more advanced "countries of developed socialism", which were mostly located in Eastern Europe, but also included Vietnam and Cuba. Most received some aid, either military or economic, from the Soviet Union, and were influenced by it to varying degrees. Sometimes, their support for the Soviet Union eventually stopped, for various reasons; in some cases the pro-Soviet government lost power, in other cases the pro-Soviet forces were overthrown by military coups promoted by the United States (such as in Chile and Brazil), in some cases the pro-Soviet forces gained power by military aid from the Soviet Union (such as in Vietnam), while in other cases the same government remained in power but changed its relations with the Soviet Union.
Some of these countries were not Socialist states. They are marked in italic.
- Egypt (1954–1973)
- Syria (1955–1991)
- Iraq (1958–1961)
- Guinea (1960–1978)
- Somalia (1961–1977)
- Ghana (1964–1966)
- Peru (1968–1975)
- Sudan (1968–1972)
- Libya (1969–1991)
- People's Republic of the Congo (1969–1991)
- Chile (1970–1973)
- People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (1969–1990)
- Uganda (1966–1971)
- Madagascar (1972-1991)
- People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (1974–1991)
- Lao People's Democratic Republic (1975–1991)
- Benin (1975–1979)
- People's Republic of Mozambique (1975–1990)
- People's Republic of Angola (1977–1991)
- Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (1978–1991)
- Grenada (1979-1983)
- Nicaragua (1979–1990)
- People's Republic of Kampuchea (1979–1989)
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