But outside the major cities, virtually everything built with Soviet assistance has been ransacked.

Vietnam receives large amounts of Soviet assistance, possibly $2 billion a year.

The war also brought Soviet assistance for the indigenous aircraft industry.

The antireformist coalition could hope to stay in power only with Soviet assistance.

Soviet assistance, which was running about $700,000 a year, was deemed insufficient.

China's nuclear industry began in the 1950s with Soviet assistance.

China began developing nuclear weapons in the late 1950s with substantial Soviet assistance.

Cambodia received Soviet technical assistance and equipment to support the maintenance of the transportation network.

Soviet economic and military assistance to Vietnam, one of the poorest countries in the world, is estimated at some $1.6 billion annually.

Mechanization of farm operations commenced on a large scale in the 1950s with Soviet assistance.