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With mountains of documentation, mostly from government and corporate sources, Sutton shows that Soviet military technology is heavily dependent on U.S. and allied gifts, "peaceful trade" and exchange programs. We've built for, sold or traded, or given outright to the Communists everything from copper wiring and military trucks to tank technology, missile guidance technology, computers - even the Space Shuttle. Peaceful trade is a myth ... to the Soviets all trade is strategic. The paradox is that we spend $300 billion a year on a defense against an enemy we created and continue to keep in business. The deaf mute blindmen, as Lenin called them, are the multi-national businessmen who see no further than the next contract, who have their plants defended by Marxist troops (in Angola); who knowingly sell technology that comes back to kill and maim Americans.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dauphin Publications (November 3, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 276 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1939438543
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1939438546
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.69 x 9 inches
Reviewer: James
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Ever wonder why US taxpayers fed and armed the USSR from beginning to end?
Review: Names names, dates, places and amounts. Socialism is the ultimate form of monopoly. That's why the monopolists who have and do run the United States made certain that the USSR was fully fed and fully supplied at the expense of the US taxpayer with themselves taking a large commision in the process.

Reviewer: Jetlag
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The information is ugly but you can't put it down
Review: Absolutely mesmerizing information. Shows the history of corruption we see today

Reviewer: James E. Egolf
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The Hell with U.S. Citizens and Trust Only Those Can Pay and Can Do Business
Review: Those who read Anthony Sutton's WALL AND THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION should read THE BEST ENEMY MONEY CAN BUY in tandam. The latter book simply follows events during and especially after World War II and the Cold War. Sutton has amassed a collection of anecdotes and comments which, if so sad and deadly, would be funny.Part of THE BEST ENEMY MONEY CAN BUY deals with government officials either defelcting or ending investigations of U.S. business executives who did business and made lucrative deals with "The Evil Empire." Many U.S. presidents preached about the purity of their anti-Communism while at the same time arranging for business leaders to make huge sums of money doing business with both the Soviets and Chinese Communists.Some of the projects that U.S. and Western European businessmen included innocent sounding projects such as the Kharkov Tractor Factory which was built in 1932. This became a military production factory. Another example of U.S. government and business executives occured just before the Soviets Afghanistan in 1980. The Soviets purchased huge grain supplies knowing that window dressing would preclude further grain sales.Sutton also cites the Kama Truck Factory which was computerized by Texas Instruments, powered by General Electric, and financed by U.S. bankers. All of this done via the U.S. taxpayers. One must raise the question of who pays for all of this.For all of his tough talk about the wicked Communists, Pres. Reagan continued the late Pres. Nixon's policy of money and technology transfers to the Chinese Communists. One amusing aspect of the Cold War was the fact that U.S. authroities went after any and all dissenters who complained about the status-quo. The political response to any complaints or problems in the U.S. was due to "The Gremlins in the Kremlin." Yet, the same businessmen, Congressmen, self appointed professional anti-Communists, etc. were the same ones who voted for or arranged so much finance and technology to both the Soviets and Chinese. The official anti-Communists did more to prolong Big Communism than any U.S. dissenter or U.S. self avowed Communist.What is interesting is the official political do gooders condemned U.S. labor leaders as being Communist. Yet, these same labor leaders were virtually the only ones who raised protest against the harsh working and living conditions of Soviet workers which Sutton makes clear on page 208. The hypocrisy is so apparent.Those who say the a picture is worth a thousand words would appreciate this book. The political cartoons reveal a lot about the lack of loyalty on part of "conservative" business leaders who have been in the vanguard of domestic anti-Communism.Anthony Sutton is clear that U.S. technology and financial transfers to Big Communism was responsible for the deaths of U.S. Servicemen in the Korean and Vietnam Wars. U.S. citizens should be outraged that their government and official leaders were responsible for all this.Mr. Luce, the well known journalist, was asked about U.S. Communists. Mr. Luce responded that American blue collar workers were Democrats. The American middle classes were Republicans. The plutocratic wealthy were Communists. Sutton's book makes this assessment clear.

Reviewer: Kug
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Information, A Tough Read
Review: The book is packed with disturbing facts about how our leaders sold us out to the communists by supplying them our technology, raw materials, and weapons, as well as building plants for them where they could build trucks and tanks for the Vietnam War. I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 only because of the style of the book which as the Foreword to the book says is written more like a legal brief than exciting reading. It's a very important contribution to our sad history. As the saying goes 'follow the money'.

Reviewer: S. Swink
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: More Treason
Review: Sutton proves conclusively that the United States financed the economic and military development of the Soviet Union. Without this aid, financed by U.S. taxpayers, there would be no significant Soviet military threat, for there would be no Soviet economy to support the Soviet military machine, let alone sophisticated military equipment. The book reads almost like a legal brief from the prosecution.

Reviewer: Bayard B.
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Interesting study on technology transfer to the USSR but also an irritating polemic with numerous errors and distortions.
Review: The Best Enemy Money Can Buy:Interesting and stinging discussion of the extent to which Soviet industrialization, and especially Soviet military industry and technological development, was dependent upon foreign (especially US, British, and German) technology transfer. If that were all that the author (Anthony Sutton) did, this would be 4 – star book. Unfortunately, that isn’t the case. The approach in the book is very much a polemic against US government policy (both Republican and Democratic) and US corporations which sold equipment to the former USSR. There are numerous factual errors and distortions in this book. In addition, the author tries to set himself up as an expert on US and NATO trade and strategic technology transfer policy and legislation and also as an expert on US Constitutional law. He appoints himself as prosecutor, judge, and jury in determining that the US State Department and Commerce Department are run by traitors; in his concluding chapter, he flat out accuses State and Commerce Department personnel over the decades of being guilty of treason.To cite one subject: Chapter 8 discusses “The Soviets at Sea.” On page 121, he claims that the Soviet post WW II “W” (“Whiskey” in NATO) class submarine is a direct copy of the German WW II Type XXI submarine. A review of several references on the Soviet Navy shows that this is simply untrue: the “W” class is about 2/3 the displacement and has about half the engine horsepower of the Type XXI. He also spends several pages agonizing over the fact that ALL Soviet marine diesel technology is based on two or three major western manufacturers: Burmeister & Wain, Sulzer, and M.A.N. This should hardly be a surprise: the majority of marine diesel engines in the entire world are based on these three companies, either purchased directly from them or manufactured under license obtained from them. For example, marine diesel engine manufacturers in China, South Korea, Taiwan, and japan have licenses from those three companies. So the idea that the Soviet Union obtaining similar licenses somehow constitutes treason on the part of the company CEOs or US cabinet department secretaries is definitely off the wall.In Chapter VI the author carries on how the USSR developed its post WW II rocket, missile, and jet airplane technologies from captured German technologies and scientists. This is news? The US did the same thing in the 1940s and 1950s.In Chapter VII on Soviet missiles, he claims that the guidance systems for their ICBMs were manufactured using US supplied ball bearing equipment. In Appendix B, he makes several broad – brush statements such as “All Soviet automobile, truck, and engine technology comes from the West. All shipbuilding technology in the USSR comes directly or indirectly from the US or its NATO allies.” The problem I have with these statements (and many others in the book) is that Sutton offers no source citations or independent sources for these statements; he only cites as sources books that he has authored.In Chapter XII on tanks, the author makes several claims that are just plain wrong or are distortions. For example (page 165), he claims that the diesel engine used in the T – 34 tank was developed from a German Maybach diesel engine. Well, I suppose this may actually be somewhat true – after all, the diesel engine was invented in Germany by Rudolf Diesel in the first place. I have also read other claims that the T – 34 diesel engine was derived from a French engine design. I guess it all depends on how you interpret the word “derived.” The T – 34 engine is an aluminum diesel engine and was a military technological first at the time of its development and use. The German and French designs were cast iron. Aluminum diesel engine design is quite different from cast iron designs – the cooling systems are totally different.The author then makes further questionable statements when he discusses the “Christie – system torsion bar suspension” used on post WW II Soviet tanks. The Christie suspension system is NOT a torsion bar design; it uses a spring system. ALL tank and heavy military vehicle torsion bar suspension systems developed throughout the world are based on torsion bar systems originally designed in Czechoslovakia and Germany in the 1930s. The Soviets captured hundreds of damaged German Panzer II, Panther, and Tiger tanks during WW II, all of which used torsion bar suspensions; they would not have had to import torsion bar technology in order to use such suspension systems in their post – war tanks.Page 164: he claims that the engine for the T - 34 tank is the same gasoline engine as was used in the US M – 3 medium tank and was an aero V – 12 Liberty engine. As noted above, he then claims that the T - 34 engine was a diesel engine developed from the Germans. Both of these statements are wrong – see above discussion.Page 164 again: he claims that “Walter Christie … developed the Christie tank – the basis of World War II American tanks.” This is totally incorrect: the US Army rejected the Christie tank design.Page 165: he claims that the Soviet T – 28 and T – 35 tanks “resembled” British tank models. I suppose they could; after all, tanks all over the world tend to “resemble” each other – but the Soviet tanks mentioned were not based on any British tank designs.Page 166: he states “The latest T - 62s are manufactured in three gigantic plants at Nizhny Tagil, Omsk, and Kharkov.” This is wrong -- the T – 62 was manufactured only at Nizhny Tagil (although later it was manufactured in Poland and Czecheslovakia). The Kharkov plant built T – 54 and T - 64 tanks, which are completely different designs from the T -62. Omsk initially built heavy T - 10 tanks, although eventually production of heavy tanks ceased; in the 1980s, production at Omsk switched to the T – 80 tank (of which only a small number were made).It is interesting to read the extent of foreign influences on Soviet industrial and military development. But after a while, it just gets irritating to read the author’s histrionics and never ending references to traitors, treason, and “deaf – mute –blind men” (his words) who sold equipment to the Soviets. In addition, the author’s numerous distortions and outright false statements inevitably lead an intelligent and knowledgeable reader to wonder about other statements and conclusions in the book.For much more objective and balanced discussions of the former Soviet military industry and weapons manufacture and design, I suggest the following: “Soviet / Russian Armor and Artillery Design Practices,” Institute for Defense Analysis (1995); “The Price of the Past” by Caddy (1996);”The Soviet Economy and the Red Army 1930 – 1945” by Dunn (1995); and “The Soviet Defense Industry” by Cooper (1991).

Reviewer: Jojo Chanway
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Throughout his career, Antony C Sutton has written about the little known yet largely documented history of political, banking and corporate corruption, ranging from the historical abandonment of the gold standard / investment (a testament prophesying recent world events of sorts), the monopoly and elitism motives of the Federal Reserve banking system and Trilateral Commission, the false alarm of energy shortages with profit motives, the false sincerity of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and the delicate business deals between huge corporations with the likes of the Nazis and the Soviet Union, knowing full well that the materials being sold are capable of building a military industry. The last point does sound unbelievable at first, but the evidence from official and respected sources are there, and have also been pointed out by other researchers.In the case of the "peaceful trade" with the Soviet Union this has been a recurring point of study in Sutton's lifetime. His Western Technology and Soviet Economic Development books published on behalf of Stanford University has been liked by the academics Richard Pipes and Zbignew Brezinzki, the latter of which has an influential role in foreign policy in the U.S. government.Anyway, I consider this book as essential for history buffs. Sutton points out all kinds of evidence ranging from receipts and letters, news sources, books, and political events. Especially with statements from the likes of Dr Bryston Barron of the State Department, William Casey of CIA and some articles by Department of Defense (in which the statements sometimes water down the scale of the issue to not disturb their government allies badly), this historical issue can't be dismissed.Note: this book, unlike the free online versions around the internet, has important photographs and some amusing comic sketches only in the hardback copies like this one from Dauphin Publications.

Reviewer: Craige
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Excellent read.