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The Soviet Union was one of the largest customers of Malayan rubber during the 1950–1960 period, and displaced the United States as the largest purchaser of natural rubber with 134,000 tons purchased between January and July 1963 compared to the United States with only 96,000 tons. [6]
Although the insurgency was defeated Commonwealth troops remained with the backdrop of the Cold War against the Soviet Union. [180] Against this backdrop, independence for the Federation within the Commonwealth was granted on 31 August 1957, [ 181 ] with Tunku Abdul Rahman as the first prime minister.
Later, Malaysia replaced by Iraq due to Government joined American-led political boycott towards Soviet Union in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. 1981: 16 July: Mahathir Mohamad was sworn in as fourth Prime Minister after Tun Hussein Onn resigned. Tun Musa Hitam was appointed as deputy the next day 7 September
[13] [14] Throughout the Cold War, relations between Malaysia and the Soviet Union were tense over the latter's role in the Vietnam War and Soviet intervention in the Indian Ocean, which Malaysia felt could lead to the fulfillment of the domino theory, as the nation struggled with three communists insurgency itself; the Malayan Emergency ...
Due to opposition from Malay nationalists, the Union was disbanded and replaced by the Federation of Malaya, which restored the symbolic positions of the rulers of the Malay states. Within the Federation, while the Malay states were protectorates of the United Kingdom, Penang and Malacca remained British colonial territories.
The Singapore GLU (SGLU) reached an accommodation with the Trade Union Adviser in Singapore, S.P. Garrett, whereby it could reorganise as a Federation (not a union) and operate legally without registering. Accordingly, the SGLU became the Singapore Federation of Trade Unions (SFTU) in August 1946 and was (temporarily) safe from the law.
In 1939, the Soviet Union unsuccessfully attempted an invasion of Finland, [79] subsequent to which the parties entered into an interim peace treaty granting the Soviet Union the eastern region of Karelia (10% of Finnish territory), [79] and the Karelo-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic was established by merging the ceded territories with the ...
The first major show of force by Malay nationalism came in 1946 when Britain proposed a Malayan Union that would greatly reduce the powers of Malay rulers and give citizenship to foreign immigrants. Under intense pressure from the United Malays National Organisation , the British withdrew the proposal, resulting in the formation of the ...