Czechoslovak Arms Exports to the Middle East

During the Cold War, communist Czechoslovakia was one of the largest arms exporters to the Middle East – at least among the Soviet Bloc countries. The fourth volume of this mini-series describes the history of arms export from Czechoslovakia to Iran, Iraq, the Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen), and the People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen (South Yemen) between 1948–1989. During the early 1950s, and on demand from Moscow, Prague invested heavily in the development of a domestic arms industry, ai