The Brezhnev-era Soviet Union financed the wars that the Left now disowns.
Evidence
While the revolutionary wars were going on, it had been difficult for the more truthful even within the anti-communist Left to ignore entirely the contradiction that an internally bureaucratized society was in every single case the main supplier of the material and diplomatic support which made those wars possible; it was, after all, in the so-called ‘period of stagnation’ (the Brezhnev years) that so many of the revolutions had in fact taken place, with direct Soviet assistance — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 57
Categorization
- QUESTION: Worth chasing: which specific revolutions and wars received direct Soviet arms assistance during the ‘stagnation’ era, and what was the diplomatic structure of that support?