[NonValueAdded]

A funny ha ha story until you consider what other hardware was offered to whom ...

[Tennessee Nana]

when I was a child in NZ in the 50s there was a saying “guns or butter”

must have been as typo..

it seems it was “guns for butter”

[ops33]

The photo with the article shows a MIG 15 or a MIG 17, both 1950’s era fighters. Are they saying that the Russians offered New Zealand Korean War technology to pay off their debt?

[2001convSVT]

Maybe if Russia throws in a few SS-19s to sweeten the deal?

[dfwgator]

From “One, Two, Three”

Peripetchikoff: We have trade agreement with Cuba. They send us cigars, we send them rockets.
C.R. Macnamara: Good thinking.
C.R. MacNamara: You know something? You guys got cheated. This is a pretty crummy cigar.
Peripetchikoff: Do not worry. We send them pretty crummy rockets.

[shaggy eel]

,,, the NZ Dairy Board (that's what it was called at the time; now it's FONTERRA), took Ladas and Nivas as part payment and sold them through car dealerships.

I heard one time Elton John was offered lots of caviar and mink coats to perform in Russia. I know he's done gigs there so maybe he's set for caviar.