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And he had a secret aim: to take Hungary out of the Soviet bloc and steer it to the West.
It would set a terrible example for the rest of the Soviet bloc.
With it, Nemeth was able to return to Budapest and proceed with the election, marking a turning point in the tumultuous events that would end with the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 and the breakup of the Soviet empire.
Instead, the US found another way to penalize Soviet aggression: arming the Afghan mujahedeen.
The murder rates are similarly high in other former Soviet republics.
The key to the high murder rates in the former Soviet republics is that the murder rate was as high in the USSR as in the USA - around 9 per 100,000 people.
The revolt against Soviet domination in Afghanistan was led by holy warriors who then imposed their own form of misrule.
The US may no longer be the world’s undisputed leader, as it was in the decade following the Soviet Union’s collapse, but it nonetheless has a vital role to play in international affairs.
Signed in 1987 by Ronald Reagan and Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev, the INF required both the US and Russia to eliminate ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles.
The more these second-line drugs are used, the faster drug-resistant strains emerge and spread - a huge problem in former Soviet countries, where up to 10% of newly diagnosed cases are multi-drug resistant.
In the 1980’s, Mikhail Gorbachev warned that Soviet oil resources were exhausted.
Of course, Russia is bound to exercise strong influence in the former Soviet territories, but it will have to share that influence with others.
The European Union, the US, and China offer the former Soviet republics opportunities for “balancing” against Russia.
During the Cuban energy crisis that followed the cut-off of subsidized Soviet supplies, the proportion of adults who were physically active more than doubled.
That article reflects the deep, unresolved problems of Putin’s era: the inability to distinguish between the Soviet past and the Russian present; an unscrupulous mix of political conservatism and historical revisionism; and indifference, bordering on incomprehension, with regard to the key values of democracy.
They regard the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany as the highest achievement of the state and nation that they inherited from the USSR.
Rather, what concerns Putin is the balancing of WWII and Stalinism in Soviet history.
That number has grown over the years, as Soviet officials broadened the definition of wartime deaths to mean total “population loss,” rather than direct military casualties.
Official estimates of Soviet deaths in WWII thus rose from seven million (the figure put forth under Stalin) to 20 million (Khrushchev) to 26.6 million (Gorbachev), with civilian deaths accounting for at least two-thirds of Putin’s estimate.
But there is an older and more ominous parallel between Venezuela and Ukraine: the Soviet Union’s man-made famine of 1933.
The catastrophe was unleashed when Stalin, convinced that the kulaks were hiding grain from the Soviet state, requisitioned the seed grain, believing that this would force the kulaks to use the hidden grain as seed.
The Berlin Wall did not collapse under a barrage of NATO artillery, but under the impact of hammers and bulldozers wielded by people who had changed their minds about Soviet ideology.
Putin is now making the same mistake as his Soviet forebears.
While the old Soviet threat had united its sixteen members, the new threats, it turned out, divided them.
In March, in response to a nerve-agent attack on the former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter in the United Kingdom, the Trump administration expelled 60 Russian diplomats, the largest number since the Soviet era.
As trade links with the former Soviet world collapsed, most of these giant firms collapsed.
Her period in office coincided with the crumbling of Soviet communism in Europe, which culminated with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
She had been an outspoken critic of Soviet communism, like her transatlantic friend and partner, Ronald Reagan.
Her espousal of free markets – indeed, her ringing declarations about the link between political and economic freedom – inspired the Soviet bloc’s peoples, who had suffered under the Soviet yoke for 40 years.
This winter, the Cuban government reinvested some of its income from tourism in upgrading schools that deteriorated in the years following the loss of Soviet aid.
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