1992 Reports

From the Soviet Union to the Commonwealth of Independent States: The Aid Debate

Desai, Padme

The aid debate was thrown into a flurry of media attention in March 1992, when former President Richard Nixon revived the issue of helping Russia with a dramatic warning: “The hot-button issue in the 1950s was, Who lost China?’ If Mr. Yeltsin goes down, the question ‘Who lost Russia?’ will be an infinitely more devastating issue in the 1990s” (Wall Street Journal, 11 March 1992).