ABSTRACT
The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA) member countries furthermore actively tried to raise the attractiveness of their organization for the Global South. Part of the deal included working out a stipend program for students from the Global South that were handed out not in the name of a particular member state of the CMEA but in the name of the organization itself. The members of the CMEA were already exchanging information on the different education systems in the Global South in the mid-1960s. The mutual exchange on technical assistance in the form of providing education and vocational training to young students from the Global South also served the important task of educating these young people politically. Providing political education was also used to get to know how the youth of the Global South was thinking and how easily their hearts could be won for socialism.
