Posted by Jock on January 09, 2007 at 19:20:27 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: Ah! - Re: Britain posted by John Giddy on January 09, 2007 at 11:38:02:
It also gave them another vote which they could control...
Plus Byelorussia which was a member since 24 October 1945 giving the USSR three UN votes, also the USSR had indirect (but very effective) control of the votes of the East European countries which were assigned to the Soviet 'sphere of influence' under the post-Yalta division of Europe: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland, Rumania. Yugoslavia was the joker in the pack and was sometimes allowed to vote independently of the main Warsaw Pact block. That means (if I've not left anybody out) that the USSR controlled 9 and sometimes 10 UN votes.