The Honecker regime offers "brains rather than bodies"
They fly wounded Afghan soldiers out for treatment to their own sophisticated medical facilities. They supply the Vietnamese with everything from military hardware to sewing machines. They advise and train Ethiopia's troops and police and provide the machinery for its new security and intelligence apparatus.
These ubiquitous benefactors of Third World countries are neither the Soviets nor the Cubans but the East Germans. In manifold ways that have been little noticed in the West, the German Democratic Republic has been extending its political reach around...
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