russian jet pilots in korean war?

"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.