Legacy Of “Friendly Neutrality” Goals Of Soviet Policy

... period 1920 ‒ 1922, Turkey received 39,000 rifles, 327 machine guns, 63,000,000 cartridges, 54 pieces of ordnance, 147,000 shells, as well as a large number of hand grenades and other munitions, 12 airplanes, and several warships [Documents of Foreign Policy of the USSR…1959 : 675]. For reference, the funds the Soviet Union supplied to Atatürk were equal to the annual budget of Turkey [Hirst, İşçi, 2020 : 838]. Chicherin constantly insisted on fast-tracking the fulfillment of USSR’s obligations with respect ...