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The Berlin Wall and the Prague Spring are cited as events that made Soviet style communism lose its appeal to all but the most hardcore communists. In the 1970s the Soviet Union also came under fire for claiming to give more foreign aid than it really did, especially since it actually gave a lower percentage of non-military foreign aid than the Western nations. With a PoD of 1953, how can the Soviet Union and the Soviet model of development become more respected among the developing and post-colonial nations of the world?
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