All estimates are merely estimates  It seems you have nothing to offer except denial  Denial that Idi Amin was supported by the USSR denial that the Stasi executed anyone for political reasons dismissal of all sources to the contrary  You want me to accept Coatsworth while claiming Rummel is discredited  You want me to accept Argentina as a US client while refusing to accept Uganda as a Soviet client   Heres a report from the time  While the United States had supplied Argentina with considerable assistance over many years before  it was only in  that the truly repressive Videla regime came to power  Within a year of the coup the United States terminated its arms sales to Argentina  Furthermore the United States has continually denounced Argentinian repression in international forums whereas the Soviet Union has come to their defenseArgentina has played a vital role in sabotaging the grain embargo on the Soviet Union  Heres another  Argentina has redirected its normal pattern of trade to a greater extent than any of the other grain exporters in   Pursuing an aggressive marketing strategy after abolishing its Grain Board some time before the government allowed its companies to replace all the US orders they could It reduced customary exports to Italy Spain Japan Chile and Peru selling nearly all of its exportable corn and grain sorghum surplus to the Soviet Union In return it received prices of almost  cents over the American selling price from the desparate Soviet foreign trade organization responsible for grain imports Export Khleb In addition Export Khleb wooed Argentina into an agreement to sell  million tons of corn and grain sorghum and  million tons of soybeans to the Soviets over the next five years The Soviet Vice Minister of Foreign Trade even predicted in April a tripling of total trade between the USSR and Argentina in the next few years  And another This poor harvest did not prevent Argentina from expanding its grain exports to the Soviet Union  And  another  Soviet propaganda and other support for Argentina during the South Atlantic war contrasted favorably in Argentine eyes with US support for the United Kingdom