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(Soviet communism, for all its imported Western inputs, was rooted in the traditional idea of collective property.)
The failed revolutions in Hungary in 1956 and in Czechoslovakia in 1968 foreshadowed the eventual failure of the Soviet empire in 1989.
Or it could be remembered as another “Sputnik moment,” when, as with the Soviet foray into outer space in 1957, the American people realized that the country had lost its footing and decided it was time for the United States to get its act together.
Russia’s message to other West-leaning countries in the former Soviet world was clear: America cannot protect you.
But, as in the nineteenth century, the confrontation was mostly about control of Europe, exemplified in the Soviet interventions in Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968.
The war in Afghanistan in the 1980s finally exhausted the Soviet Union’s military and economic potential, impelling it to abandon its satellites in Europe and finally to collapse.
The CCP, they insist, has proved its resilience since the Tiananmen crisis in 1989 and the collapse of Soviet communism in 1991.
For example, such foundations supported struggling Russian universities after the Soviet Union’s collapse, helping them to regain their status while rebuilding academic programs in all disciplines.
Never mind that Eisenhower did nothing to stop Soviet tanks from crushing the Hungarian uprising in 1956, or that Reagan had no intention of supporting Solidarity activists when they rose against Poland’s communist regime.
The Soviet Union’s ruling ideology was equally clear: a Stalinist version of Communism.
The ideological enemy was the capitalist world, but the immediate enemies were “Trotskyists,” “revisionists,” and other “reactionary elements” inside the Soviet sphere.
In times of crisis, old-school Russian nationalism was mobilized in the service of Soviet interests.
Putin regards the collapse of the Soviet Union as a major calamity; yet he freely quotes Ivan Ilyin, who became a ferocious opponent of the Soviet regime and was banished by Lenin to Western Europe in 1922.
Escape from MoscowCommunism’s fall gave the nations of the former Soviet bloc a chance to turn towards democracy, a market economy, and the rule of law.
Russia supported a so-called “autonomy-movement” in northeast Estonia, which is populated mostly by ethnic Russians who settled there during Soviet times.
Proof of China’s displeasure was first seen at the 2008 summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (a regional grouping that includes former Soviet countries that share borders with China and Russia).
From China’s standpoint, however, the Soviet collapse was the greatest strategic gain imaginable.
The Soviet military threat – once so severe that Chairman Mao invited President Richard Nixon to China to change the Cold War balance of power – was eliminated.
China’s new assertiveness suggests that it will not allow Russia to forge a de facto Soviet Reunion and thus undo the post-Cold War settlement, under which China’s economy flourished and security increased.
In part, this is because the initial Soviet response was secretive: Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader at the time, addressed the issue on television only weeks later, on May 14, 1986.
Twenty years of the most advanced thinking for mathematical algorithms came from a Soviet empire starved of computing power.
But he worries that Russia may be antagonized as former Soviet satellites or even republics of the Soviet Union gain access to Western organizations.
The ideological victory that they achieved with the Soviet Union’s demise was not permanent.
Though the US had disproportionate economic clout, its room for political and military maneuver was constrained by Soviet power.
And its effects on non-members – including significant powers like China, India, Indonesia, and the Soviet bloc – were not always benign.
Propaganda-driven nostalgia for the Soviet Union’s Cold War-era “great power” status is obscuring the lessons of that time.
That, in a nutshell, was the Soviet model, which failed once and would fail again.
When Soviet troops crushed the Hungarian Uprising of 1956, some 200,000 Hungarians fled their country.
Russia’s Indefensible Military BudgetPARIS – On May 9, Russia held its largest military parade since the Soviet era.
The joke, though an exaggeration (each tank costs about $8 million), highlighted another throwback to Soviet life: overspending on the military.
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