Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein was the second President of Egypt from 1956 until his death.
He had a friendly relation with the West as Egypt was an important Arab support against communism in the Middle East. However, he also bought Russian arms form Czechoslovakia.
He was the main culprit for the Suez Crisis as he wanted to strengthen his army when Israel hit back at Egypt for encouraging Palestinian raids into Israel. So when he bought the Russian arms from Czechoslovakia, it ended Egypt’s reliance on Western arms together with alliance with Britain and France.
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