THE ROLE OF THE SOVIET STATE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CULTURAL SPHERE OF ASIA AND AFRICA

Abstract

Most Southeast Asian states entered into an alliance with the West during the early period after World War II, which would reflect their concerns about the spread of communism. Only Indonesia tried to follow the policy of the USSR and the PRC under Sukarno, but even there the direction changed dramatically after 1965. In the 1980s, Thailand, the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia demonstrated rapid economic growth in the early 1990s. In the new world, industrial was added to the range of developed countries. Only in Burma for a long time the communist regime followed.