The Soviet public immediately spotted the phoniness and would have none of it. The Polish public knew the score all too well.
Labels are often enough to nab the suckers.
It's very easy. No foreign policy or foreign maneuvering is needed. If authentic free trade evers looms on the policy horizon, there'll be one sure way to tell. The establishment would react to instituting true free trade about as enthusiastically as it would to repealing the income tax. Genuine free traders consider exports a means of paying for imports, in the same way that goods in general are produced in order to be sold to consumers.