A false pretense when there is little respect outside of those receiving payments beyond their borders. Perhaps they think they would be admitting defeat and that would cause the coup to occur overnight?
Communist/Socialist Governments typically use such financial vehicles among many others to systematically remove and transfer some/most of their countries wealth into their own/friends coffers through various arrangements with financial institutions et al all the time.
Just another day and another dollar. Pride/Honor have nothing to do with any decisions when it comes to stealing billions. The human cost isn't even part of the equation.
Oh, come on. Such activities happen the world and history over regardless of the ostensible public political veneer.
Socialists practice the same - just in moderation - but it is how all governments are funded. The trick is just to not go full retard like Venezuela and kill the golden goose.
Socialist/communist regimes are founded on a system devised to take away any and all wealth away from the people to handle it to the state, supposedly with the objective of spreading the wealth and taking care of everyone's needs.
In practice, the system takes away any and all wealth from the people, and handles it to the regime's cronies for them to use to pamper themselves as they wish.
The history of socialism repeats itself over and over again. We see it right now in Venezuela, we saw it in Brazil with the successive Worker Party's, we see it right now in Angola as well.