In fact, I had previously heard a thought expressed rather similarly by a "rabid anti-Sovietism" etc in the Soviet press. The phraseĬaused some enjoyable offence at the time, and I was castigated for my Summer of 1987, I think, when I was the correspondent in Moscow (1986-89)įor The Daily Telegraph (London) and The Sunday Telegraph. Sorry, but it was I who first put it into public print. Henry Kissinger, Helmut Schmidt and even Mikhail Gorbachev have Times recently in DJL, with occasional passing discussion as to its ISBN 081-799-103-4.I notice that the phrase "Upper Volta with rockets" has popped up a few ![]() ^ Manson, Katrina Knight, James (2012).Revolutionary Internationalist Movement (10). ^ "The Fall of Captain Sankara, or Why You Can't Make Revolution without the Masses" (PDF).United States: Institute of African American Relations: 37. Bulletin of the Institute of African American Relations. In Markakis, John Waller, Michael (eds.). "The Revolutionary Process in Burkina Faso: Breaks and Continuities". Thomas Sankara Speaks: the Burkina Faso Revolution: 1983-1987. ^ a b Rupley, Lawrence Bangali, Lamissa Diamitani, Boureima (2013)."The Soviet economy, 1917-1991: Its life and afterlife". "Televison : From Burkina Faso with rockets to Upper Volta without". United States: International Business Publications. ^ a b Burkina Faso Foreign Policy and Government Guide.The old respective Burkinabé–Soviet embassies closed down later during the 1990s due to funding issues. ![]() Burkina Faso recognized the Russian Federation as the USSR's successor state following its dissolution in 1991. When the Revolutions of 1989 began, the Burkinabé state debt to the USSR amounted to 4.3 million rubles. īy the time Thomas Sankara was ousted and killed on 15 October 1987 in a military coup orchestrated by Blaise Compaoré, the government of Mikhail Gorbachev was far too busy with demokratizatsiya, perestroika and glasnost to continue near any of its previously major engagements in Burkina Faso and Africa overall. Sankara made a state visit to Moscow while on a tour of other friendly states in October 1984. In spite of these differences, the Soviet Union had some degree of cooperation with Burkina Faso – primarily militarily, in the form of provided training and equipment, and economically. Sankara also condemned the Soviet–Afghan War. ![]() In a newspaper editorial entitled " The Proletarian Spritit", Sankara – who often condemned foreign aid as imperialism – criticized the Soviet Union's foreign aid policies. Nonetheless, relations with strongly pro-Soviet states (such as Cuba) were close, and Sankara maintained friendly relations with the USSR, despite many contentions – the Patriotic League for Development, closely aligned with the USSR, was initially allied with Sankara, but its members were purged from the government in 1984. While a radical left-wing revolutionary who had studied Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin, Sankara – who attempted to implement what he dubbed the "Democratic and Popular Revolution" ( French: Révolution démocratique et populaire) – did not align with the Soviet Union, preferring non-alignment and self-sufficiency. In 1983, Captain Thomas Sankara came to power in a military coup. One of his successors was Oubkiri Marc Yao. Bamina Georges Nebie, a later prominent government minister, served as the Voltaic ambassador to the USSR for some time. During the 1960s, USSR was sometimes derisively referred to as "Upper Volta with rockets", coined by a journalist Xan Smiley, referencing USSR's disproportion of defence sector over relatively undeveloped civilian economy. The Soviet Union maintained an embassy in the Burkinabé capital Ouagadougou, and Burkina Faso maintained an embassy in Moscow.ĭiplomatic relations between the two countries were established for the first time on 18 February 1967, during the first years of Colonel General Sangoulé Lamizana's military rule in Upper Volta. Relations between the countries were relatively close during some parts of the late Cold War. Bilateral relations Burkinabé–Soviet relationsīurkina Faso–Soviet Union relations refers to the historical relationship between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Republic of Burkina Faso (formerly the Republic of Upper Volta).
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