Both of these efforts loan guarantees for agricultural and oil and gas equipment sales have little to do with impelling democratization or freemarket reforms.
Both of these efforts -- loan guarantees for agricultural and oil and gas equipment sales -- have little to do with impelling democratization or freemarket reforms.
Notably, the Soviet Union has severely undercut the chances for successful transitions from command economies to freemarket systems in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia by reducing earlier this year urgently-needed oil and gas supplies by as much as 20-30 percent -- notwithstanding Moscow's contractual obligations and in sharp contrast to Gorbachev's concern about "contract sanctity" in the case of his advisers in Iraq.