Markus
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Originally Posted by Markus
If the arms embargo hadn't tied the Spanish Republic's hands, then it could have bought arms on the open market, and not have to depend on the Soviets, who ultimately ended up stealing their gold reserves. I read that in the 1980 novel The Spike, by Robert Moss, and Arnaud de Borgrave. The Soviets sold the Spanish Republic outdated Polikarpov I-15s
and I-16s, which were biplane fighters.
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...yes. Although the Soviet Union did not 'steal' the gold reserves: the Republic simply could not obtain materiel by any other method. Although it wasn't incidental that, through exchange-rate manipulation, the USSR did profit immensely from the bullion transferral, that's not stealing.
Hey! I did not write that! Bard32 did. Please edit that.