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Fascism and Soviet communism were constructed on the backs off unwilling people.
Indeed, whenever nuclear assets have been least secure – during the Soviet Union’s collapse, China’s Cultural Revolution, and the Algiers putsch (when a group of mutinous retired generals set their sights on a nuclear device that France was testing in the Algerian desert) – they have not been compromised.
A leftover Soviet distrust of outsiders colors many opinions, and there’s an oft-repeated claim that the culture is different: an intervention that works in the West might fail in the East.
Threats to expel Russia from the G-8 or keep it out of the World Trade Organization will only increase its sense of isolation, strengthen its authoritarianism, and push it into the role of a revolutionary anti-status quo power in the Soviet Union’s old sphere of influence and beyond.
In the former Soviet bloc, it was the poets, dramatists, cartoonists, and novelists whose works encoded forbidden themes of freedom, and who were targeted by the secret police.
But most Russians do not view the entire Soviet period as some sort of black hole.
Today, Russians listen to old Soviet songs and watch Soviet-era movies.
And yet, as Ukrainians work to rebuild our country after Viktor Yanukovych’s predatory rule, we are facing a new threat, in the form of a “peace offensive” – that old staple of Soviet diplomacy designed to undermine Western resolve.
Unfortunately, equating the current situation in the Caucasus with the Soviet Union’s invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 does not attest to this kind of realism.
If we accepted this reasoning, we would have to accept a Soviet researcher’s assertion in the late 1980’s that we must rely on the state to create jobs, because 90% of past jobs were created by the state.
Obama administration officials had been hoping that bilateral cooperation to tackle this common threat might deepen the US-China partnership in the same way that the common Soviet threat brought Nixon and Mao together in 1972.
Either it could step in and provide an enormous amount of credit directly to households and firms (much like Gosbank, the Soviet Union’s central bank), or it could stand by idly while GDP falls 20-30% – the magnitude of decline that we have seen in modern economies when credit suddenly dries up.
The US also wants progress on the territorial integrity of former Soviet states, such as Georgia, but that, too, is unlikely.
The ties that bind us together were frayed by forty years of Soviet domination, but this did not fundamentally change these states’ European character.
An obvious historical parallel for today is the interwar period of the twentieth century, when Vladimir Lenin presented Soviet communism as a global brand, and founded the Communist International.
How much longer can we ignore the fact that, in raising the bogeyman of “Chechen terrorism,” the Russian government is suppressing the liberties gained when the Soviet empire collapsed?
And the Soviet Union’s implosion in 1991 caused a panic in the CCP.
How is it that societies as disparate as the Greek Bronze Age cities of Knossos, Mycenae, or Pylos, the Inca Empire, Soviet Russia, South Korea, and now China all ended up with state capitalism?
Soviet forces invaded the peninsula in the last days of World War II – a pure land grab – and accepted the surrender of Japanese forces.
Was it sufficient to fix limits on the Soviet Union’s ambitions, or was a more aggressive stance, sometimes described as “containment plus,” necessary?
Despite having been cajoled by Putin with lavish financial support and cheap gas, Ukraine is unlikely to join a Russia-led EurAsEC, which is more a means of anchoring former Soviet republics to Russia’s sphere of influence than it is a vehicle to promote trade.
Mikhail Gorbachev was originally installed in power to press on with Yuri Andropov’s KGB-inspired vision of communism, but instead diverted the Soviet Union’s course into glasnost and perestroika , and accidentally into freedom.
Following the Soviet Union’s collapse in the 1990’s, those conflicts began to “unfreeze.”
Although there's nothing like Soviet oppression, the alienation between state and society resembles that of Soviet days.
The old Soviet mindset persists: they up there will take their own decisions regardless of us down below.
To be sure, Europe and the US made mistakes in the aftermath of the Soviet Union’s collapse.
But the Soviet Union’s demise was the result of a long string of missteps, beginning with pre-Soviet Russia’s inability to come to terms with modernity.
It is a dangerous and volatile mix, relying on principles and methods that led Russia’s empires – Czarist and Soviet – to failure and ruin.
My conception of my role as Soviet president compelled me not to intervene.
My task, as I saw it, was to ensure Central and Eastern Europe's peaceful return to full sovereignty with a minimum of Soviet interference.
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