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Although Putin did have the decency to change the words, he retained the Soviet spirit - “great Russia united forever.”
GOELRO’s (State Organization for the Reconstruction and Development of the Soviet People’s Economy) slogan was “Socialism means Soviet rule plus electrification of the country.”
But Russia’s people, after 10 years of Yeltsin’s anarchic freedoms, are too jaundiced to take any slogan seriously - whether from the Soviet past or from the management consultant’s hymn book.
Perhaps this is something the West should have realized about the Soviet economy all along.
But, for reasons that remain unexplained, the Soviet courts expunged his criminal record in 1978, shortly before he joined the Communist Party.
Putin is only partly to blame for Syrians’ current plight, but he could end up owning the problem, and reprising the Soviet Union’s quagmire in Afghanistan 30 years ago.
As it happens, Russia’s position today is even less secure than it was in the 1980s, when the Soviet Union’s weakening economy could no longer sustain control of an Eastern European buffer and satellites elsewhere.
When Mikhail Gorbachev allowed Soviet hegemony in Eastern Europe to collapse in 1989, he did so not on a whim, but because hegemony had become unaffordable.
A Better and Safer EuropeTo many, myself included, NATO's enlargement to take in, among others, the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania -- which were once Soviet republics -- is an impossible dream come true.
The country’s rural and elderly population – like those in other former Soviet countries – appears to prize economic stability and social order over democratic development.
Russia is hypersensitive about challenges to its influence in what it calls its “near abroad” of former Soviet satellites.
Yet ever since the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, Russia and China have sought to rekindle the close relations that once supposedly existed between the USSR and Mao’s China before Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin in 1956.
In 1969, the Chinese and Soviet armies exchanged fire across their disputed border.
It may not yet be ready to embark on a full-fledged policy of “containment,” but in the wake of the dismemberment of Georgia – and with Russia claiming a zone of “privileged influence” throughout the former Soviet world – China clearly views Russia as an emerging strategic threat.
As a result, any more Russian efforts to establish even informal suzerainty over the Soviet successor states are, following the dismemberment of Georgia, likely to meet Chinese resistance.
Is that not what we did in the not-so-distant past with regard to the brave people we called dissidents in the Soviet world?
Moreover, since 1991 and the collapse of the Soviet system, the left has lacked a clear model with which to oppose capitalism.
The only recent analogy is the collapse of the Soviet bloc, followed by the demise of the Soviet Union itself, in 1989-1991.
The US, with its monopoly on nuclear weapons, could launch a nuclear strike from Europe on the Soviet homeland.
Preemption – an attack on the Soviet Union’s nuclear weapons – would have started WWIII, a distinctly unappealing prospect.
And, as the Soviet nuclear arsenal grew, the US government ruled out defense against a missile attack: because it could not deflect every incoming nuclear explosive, it would be safer if neither side tried to build ballistic missile defenses.
As a result, something remarkable for a former Soviet country informs the habits of those who are demanding that their liberties be preserved: a deep respect for the rule of law, which is the ultimate check on abuse of power.
Indeed, India was alone in the non-aligned movement in supporting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in the 1980’s, and it also desperately supported the secular Northern Alliance after the Taliban victory of the 1990’s.
Russia, of course, has no appetite to repeat the Soviet Union’s calamitous military adventure in Afghanistan.
The United States opposed Pakistan’s development of nuclear weapons, but was slow to act, owing to its desire in the 1980s for Pakistani support in fighting the Soviet Union’s occupation of Afghanistan.
It was not as bad as during Soviet times, when we used to side with the Third World against both America and Europe, but it was still not in Russia's long-term interest.
Separatism was never a threat here, but ever since the Soviet invasion in 1979, the country has been a theater of war for global and regional conflicts.
Indeed, it is forgotten all too often that the US de facto withdrew from the country once before, following the Soviet retreat of February 1989.
This would mirror the joint statement made by former US President Ronald Reagan and former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, which was well received in both countries, and marked a new effort to improve relations.
In 1989, following the Soviet Union’s exit from Afghanistan, the US lost interest in what it now calls AfPak – Afghanistan-Pakistan.
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