D. Patterson wrote:

"George Z. Bush" wrote in message
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Rostyslaw J. Lewyckyj wrote:

George Z. Bush wrote:

If you knew your history, or were around at the time, you'd
know without being told that the only reason the US was in that
"police action" at all was that the Soviet Union, during those
relatively early UN Security Council days, took a walk during
one of their political snits when the subject came up for
discussion. The SC, in their absence, approved UN intervention
in behalf of South Korea; had the Soviet ambassador been
present during that SC discussion, they could easily (and
undoubtedly would have) vetoed it, since they had the right to
do that as all original members of the Security Council could.

Common knowledge.


So, to answer your question, they fought in behalf of North
Korea because North Korea was one of their client states to
whom they furnished all kinds of military equipment and
supplies, as well as the training in their use. They fought for
the NKs because they did not want the world to think their MIG
aircraft, in the hands of relatively green NK pilots, couldn't
be competitive with US military equipment.

If they could have turned back the clock, there wouldn't even
have been a war, because they'd have prevented it from
happening. That's it, in a nutshell.

George Z.

So you explain, interpret, this as an expression of
simple commercial interests ? ;-)

Only in part.
I thought it obvious that everybody would assume that they would
stand up for their ideological bedfellows, and so I didn't think
that part of it was worth mentioning.

(^-^))))

George Z.

Stalin and the Soviets planned, trained, and equipped the North Koreans
to prepare for the invasion as an instrument of Soviet foreign policy.

Yes. That's the much more important point to keep in mind, and explore,
for soc.culture.russian readers. Rather than to have major wrangles
over trivia such as which now obsolete airplane was superior, or which
ace had how many kills.
What is important is the mind set and culture of the Russian leadership
caste, including the administrative apparatchik bureaucracy