Take the following as truth: Go back and read their work, from around the same time as Bell's, and you have a totally different  At least these authors' arguments fall somewhere on the map of 1999 (and neither of them seem to pay much heed to the U.S.S.R.).
Then the following statement: "Both authors works were written at the same time as Bell's, but they ignored the U.S.S.R." is true, false, or inconclusive?
Answer: Inconclusive