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No one dreamed that a line drawn on the 38th parallel for the tactical purpose of organizing the surrender of Japanese units to Soviet and American forces would become a scar across the Korean peninsula that would create two separate states.
Putin once famously observed that the Soviet Union’s collapse was the greatest catastrophe of the twentieth century.
The plan has been clear: Start with a customs union – initially Russia, Belarus, and Kazakhstan – and add most of the other former Soviet republics.
Millions of Russians and others died in the Soviet Gulag system during Joseph Stalin’s rule.
Heir to an imperial tradition that has shaped its national identity, Russia is resuming in the Middle East a role and status more in tune with the one it had from the Czarist era to Soviet times.
Expanding Europe's common economic space to all territories of the former Soviet bloc will contribute to security and prosperity across the region.
In many respects, the former Soviet republics are less well-placed than their former communist neighbours to the West to cope with the transition to a market economy.
For 70 years, their contacts with the West were stifled by the Soviet system.
The last time Russia hosted the Olympics – the 1980 Summer Games in Moscow – the US and its allies staged a boycott in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
I sent a clear message to this effect, through an emissary of the Soviet Politburo, two days after I was nominated as prime minister, and I amplified it later, during my first visit to Moscow.
Any government decision needs to be signed by a score of senior officials with no political mandate but who maintain Soviet views.
The second force is the Soviet bureaucracy.
Soviet bureaucracy is creeping back.
America has spent roughly $800 billion in direct military outlays in Afghanistan, and indeed has been at war there almost non-stop since the CIA covertly intervened in 1979, helping to provoke the Soviet invasion of that country.
Much of the vast earnings that the Soviet state collected from energy sales, particularly exports, now flows into a few private pockets.
In that sense, bin Laden hoped that the US would be lured into a bloody war in Afghanistan, similar to the Soviet intervention two decades earlier, which had created such a fertile recruiting ground for jihadists.
Such rhetoric resonates powerfully in former Soviet satellites that have only recently regained their sovereignty.
In the 1990s, when ten countries and 100 million citizens broke from the Soviet empire and joined the West, the promise of EU accession eased, encouraged, and to some extent guided the transition.
And, after Hitler, Joseph Stalin used referendums to incorporate Eastern Europe into the Soviet bloc.
That is why trade unionists were the first through the gates of Dachau, and why Poland’s Solidarity movement posed an existential threat to Communist power throughout the former Soviet bloc.
Sustainable LeadershipCANBERRA – Last September, at the European Forum on New Ideas, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, former Polish President Lech Walesa, and former West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher participated in a panel discussion (of which I was a part) on Europe’s response to climate change and global development prospects more broadly.
After all, who in 1985 would have predicted the Soviet Union’s collapse, Poland’s democratization, or Germany’s reunification?
In the absence of the Soviet threat, American power is essentially untrammeled.
Under the banner of a “Eurasian Union,” and relying on the renationalized oil and gas sectors as both a carrot and a stick, the Kremlin wants to tie as many of the former Soviet territories as possible to the Motherland.
Russian (or Soviet) leaders opt for perestroika or a thaw only when forced to do so by dire conditions that threaten the regime’s survival.
I am a social democrat who was never a Communist party member, though I achieved success as a lawyer in Soviet times.
I recognize that our Soviet "heritage" accounts for much of the hardship Ukraine faced in seeking its European vocation.
Its vast agricultural holdings were hamstrung by worn-out equipment and the inertia of Soviet state farming.
But our Soviet heritage does not excuse everything.
President Putin’s restoration of the old Soviet national anthem was the first recent hint that Russians are marching back to the future.
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