Algeria diversified its foreign help across Cold War blocs.

Evidence

As if to prove the point, the U.S.S.R. had followed up with a propaganda campaign of unprecedented virulence against de Gaulle’s Algerian policy. Present himself for that crucial Fifteenth Session of the United Nations, the G.P.R.A.’s Foreign Secretary, Belkacem Krim, had for the first time met Khrushchev in person. The unpredictable Ukrainian had stood holding both Krim’s hands for a long pause, then had posed for the photographers in almost affectionate postures. At a reception forty-eight hours later, Khrushchev informed Krim quite casually that the U.S.S.R. was about to accord the G.P.R.A. de facto recognition. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1409 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

In the context of the Cold War, the United States had two objectives in the Middle East: to control the flow of oil and to keep the Soviet Union out. After an initial period when it tried to bring radical secular nationalists into the fold, it turned against them. This meant cultivating all forces that could counter radical secular nationalism and communism. At the top of this list were the Islamists. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 219 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Cold War powers angled around the Algerian question for their own strategic gain; Postwar Algeria charted a third-way socialism independent of both superpowers.; The Soviet Union granted the Algerian government de facto recognition at the U.N. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1409 (+3 more)

Related

• Cold War powers angled around the Algerian question for their own strategic gain (similarity 0.85)
• The Soviet Union granted the Algerian government de facto recognition at the U.N. (similarity 0.84)
• US and Soviet block pressure converged to force de Gaulle toward Algerian concessions (similarity 0.81)
• Soviet coldness toward Algeria shaped the F.L.N.’s lasting aversion to Soviet Communism. (similarity 0.79)
• American Cold War strategy cultivated Islamists against secular nationalism (similarity 0.79)
• Boumedienne’s Algeria combined revolutionary foreign image with conservative Islamic domestic society. (similarity 0.78)
• US Cold War aid coerced political allegiance through carrot-and-stick incentives. (similarity 0.78)
• US officials welcomed Saudi Islamicization as a Cold War counterweight to Nasser (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• The Soviet Union granted the Algerian government de facto recognition at the U.N. #corroborates (0.45) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1409
• The Non-Aligned Movement created a third Cold War political space #expands (0.40)
• American Cold War strategy cultivated Islamists against secular nationalism #expands (0.35) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 219
• US Cold War aid coerced political allegiance through carrot-and-stick incentives. #complicates (0.30) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 143