[throwaway3060]

For much of that time frame, the Soviets were also meddling in the Middle East. That the middle east conflicts were themselves part of the Cold War rather than something unrelated, is knowledge that has gone forgotten in the West, I think.

[cess11]

Yeah, bad soviets, financing and arming decolonial movements and so on.

[throwaway3060]

Soviets who murdered millions of people.

Will those decolonial movements then accept complicity, even if reluctantly, for all the peoples the Soviets oppressed and even genocided?