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NEW YORK – Twenty years ago, when the Berlin Wall was breached and the Soviet empire was collapsing, only die-hard believers in a communist utopia felt unhappy.
But Russia is seeking further relief from the so-called "Paris Club" (made up of western governments) on nearly $40 billion of inherited Soviet debt to those governments.
Soviet central planning could not secure a proper return on those loans - and indeed on all investment, which was a primary reason for the USSR’s collapse.
As the Soviet Union crumbled and Yeltsin’s new, independent Russian government attempted radical reform, the G7 countries’ sent a bunch of deputy finance ministers to Moscow to insist that Soviet era debts be honored.
Only in 1996, was the scale of Russia’s inherited Soviet debt burden acknowledged in the form of 25-year rescheduling agreements concluded with the Paris and London clubs of government and commercial creditors.
For without continuing growth there is little hope for implementing the long-term reforms necessary to complete Russia’s escape from the Soviet system and so allow its people the chance to live normal, decent lives.
Most numerous were the tens of thousands of young Muslims who fought against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, where they were trained in a wide range of techniques and many were recruited to organizations with an extreme view of the religious obligation of jihad .
In just ten years, Putinism, which was consciously designed by its image-makers as a simulacrum of a great ideological style has run through all the classical stages of Soviet history.
Let us remember that Soviet communism took four decades to rot away – decades during which the inner circle knew that the regime was disintegrating from within but lacked any real idea of how to save it.
So now we hear pathetic echoes of all the reform communist efforts of the long years of Soviet decline: Putinism without Putin, Putinism with a human face, etc.
Nuclear Disarmament and Neighborhood BulliesMADRID – Twenty-five years ago, at a summit in Rejkjavik, Iceland, US President Ronald Reagan stunned the world and his Soviet counterpart, Mikhail Gorbachev, by proposing global and comprehensive elimination of all nuclear weapons.
When Soviet troops invaded Berlin at the end of April 1945 many of us went into the streets to welcome them.
True, my beloved wristwatch (which I had miraculously saved throughout the weeks of Soviet occupation) was taken from me by an American soldier on my way home from school.
In the old Soviet zone, it soon became clear that it would lead to a totalitarian satellite regime.
Those who could left the Soviet zone and settled in the West; those who could not faced the sullen existence of subjects rather than citizens.
Certainly, the crystal-ball effect had a strong influence on US and Soviet leaders during the Cuban missile crisis.
The hotels and restaurants were so poorly run that it seemed shocking that the military could be run competently enough to pose a genuine threat to the Soviet Union’s adversaries.
Germany was reunited;Eastern Europe and the states on the Soviet periphery won their independence;South Africa’s apartheid regime fell apart, numerous civil wars in Asia, Africa, and Latin America ended;Israelis and Palestinians came closer to peace than at any time since; and a disintegrating Yugoslavia degenerated into war and ethnic cleansing.
This was not the first time that containment – a strategy devised by George Kennan, the director of the US State Department’s Policy Planning Staff under President Harry Truman, in response to the Soviet threat after World War II – has been rejected as appeasement.
Containment’s goal was to prevent Soviet expansion without saddling the US with unsustainable military obligations.
Kennan was right: the dysfunctional features of Soviet system, and its over-extension internationally, would lead to its demise.
The consequences were most profound in what were the countries of the Soviet empire, but they extended to other regions as well.
In Eastern Europe, with the withdrawal and eventual disappearance of the Soviet hegemon, the floodgates were opened, and a torrent of change washed over the region.
Because President Clinton, during a July visit to Bucharest, welcomed the recent changes, some in the opposition declared that the West was directing Romanian policy in almost as haughty a manner as Soviet imperial dictates of old.
In 1994, three years after the Soviet Union’s collapse, reconstruction of the cathedral began.
My engagement accelerated with the collapse of the Soviet system and I have set up a network of foundations that extends across twenty-five countries.
The open societies of the West did not feel a strong urge to promote open societies in the former Soviet empire.
The foundations I created in the former Soviet bloc continue to do good work, but I feel an urgent need to reconsider the conceptual framework that guided me in establishing them.
At the time of the Soviet collapse there was an opportunity to make the UN function as it was originally designed to.
That was in 1991, when the Soviet Union’s collapse had left the US as the world’s only superpower.
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