I realize it isn't fashionable to quote one-time Soviet Foreign Foreign Minister Molotov, but here he is circa 1946:
'The principle of so-called equal opportunity has become a favorite topic of late. What, it is argued, could be better than this principle, which would establish equal opportunity for all states without discrimination? ...
[Take] Rumania, enfeebled by war, or Yugoslavia, ruined by the German and Italian fascists, and the United States of America, whose wealth has grown immensely during the war, and you will see clearly what the principle of "equal opportunity" would mean in practice. Imagine, under these circumstances, that in this same Rumania or Yugoslavia, or in some other war-weakened state, you have this so-called equal opportunity for, let us say, American capital - that is, the opportunity for it to penetrate unhindered into Rumanian industry or Yugoslav industry and so forth: what, then, will remain of Rumania's national industry, or of Yugoslavia's national industry?' (V. M. Molotov, _Problems of Foreign Policy_, 1949, pp. 207-214)
Michael Hoover