Egyptian elites were less unanimously pro-Soviet than official media suggested after Czechoslovakia

Evidence

There are also quite a number who remain pro- Communist but with a certain detachment from Moscow (after the events in Czechoslovakia). Egyptian acceptance of the Russian action in Czechoslovakia is by no means as unanimous as one might gather from reading the press and listening to the radio. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 1294

Categorization

• QUESTION: Authority caveat to sit with: is this the traveler’s inference or documented? The claim of intra-elite Soviet skepticism rests on observation.
• XREF: connects to: Egyptians preferred Western culture over Soviet during the Soviet alliance era — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1299; Egyptian intellectuals and merchants nostalgically preferred Western over Soviet ties — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1299
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Egyptians preferred Western culture over Soviet during the Soviet alliance era — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1299; Egyptian intellectuals and merchants nostalgically preferred Western over Soviet ties — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 1299