These are the sorts of connections, some would say a year too late, that Glen Beck could turn into one of his history lessons.
Until 1989, the Soviets were much involved with destabilizing both the third and first worlds (whatever happened to the second world?) We don't need their contribution to this, but since the East Germans educated the younger Odinga, the one who named his son Fidel, there may be some records among the KGB records released after the fall?
“We don’t need their contribution to this, but since the East Germans educated the younger Odinga, the one who named his son Fidel, there may be some records among the KGB records released after the fall?”
Great idea. It is interesting that someone from a small village in western Kenya could have the means to study abroad at all, let alone in what was then part of the communist Eastern Block. I am SURE the KGB probably “saw” alot of what is currently transpiring years and years ago.
Apparently, too, alot of the reason we (America) became a favored target of Al Qaeda is because we wanted to make the Russians retreat from Afghanistan and it required U.S. boots on the ground of Afghanistan. That was when Osama bin Laden was himself training in Afghanistan and he saw America’s arrival there as further defilement of an Islamic nation, a supreme lack of respect for Islam, its teachings, and its followers. The defilement of Afghanistan reminded bin Laden of the earlier defilement of Saudi Arabia by the U.S.
When I was in Junior High (1960's) we were taught that it was the "free world", the "communist world" and the non-aligned countries, i.e. the "third world". Being third world has nothing to do with wealth or poverty. It's about political alignment.