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For the first time since the Soviet collapse, the Kremlin will have firm parliamentary support.
Many argued at the time that support for republican Spain meant helping the far more dangerous anarchists and Communists at a time when the Soviet threat in Europe was growing.
During the Cold War, the US was able to defend Berlin because our promise to do so was made credible by the NATO alliance and the presence of American troops, whose lives would be on the line in the event of a Soviet attack.
Despite shunning Marxism/Leninism in favour of "juche" in 1967, the Soviet subsidies kept North Korea’s economy above water until 1991.
These pressures brought to power a Soviet leader willing to adopt reforms whose full extent he hardly envisaged and which eventually led to the downfall of the Communist Party.
The vast Soviet empire exited the historical stage without a single shot being fired.
Putin is wary about relinquishing this asset, so he vested its supervision in the loyal hands of Sergei Shoigu, who is in many ways a Putin clone, for he used the ruins of the old Soviet civil defense system to construct in a short space of time a secretive empire of his own.
Given this, the Trump administration’s response to the Kremlin’s increasingly assertive behavior in what was once the Soviet Union’s sphere of influence – from Eastern Europe to the Baltics – will also be watched carefully in the coming months.
Sometimes it is restricted to a particular episode and is based on evidence accumulated after the fact: Yes, the Soviet economic system was hugely inefficient; yes, the Obama fiscal stimulus of 2009 did reduce unemployment.
The Battle for RussiaPARIS – When I heard the news about the assassination of the Russian politician Boris Nemtsov in Moscow, I was reminded of a conversation I once had with a Soviet dignitary before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
We were walking alone in the park at Versailles, talking in general terms about the twentieth century and its tragedies when my Soviet guest suddenly uttered something that has stayed with me ever since.
But it was Soviet power, through a combination of purges and forced famines, that killed more of its children than all the enemies of Russia combined.”
Just as some in the West advocated cooperation with Nazi Germany against what they saw as the far more menacing Soviet threat, so today some support Putin as a partner against the danger of fundamentalist Islam.
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania were all Soviet republics, for which opposition to Russia was an essential feature of the rebuilding process.
Of course, the Czechs, Slovaks, and Hungarians – all former Soviet satellites – also have bitter memories of Russia.
But the records of both alternatives suggest that Ukraine under those who backed the Orange Revolution will remain a member of the club of democracies and open economies, whereas under Yanukovich, Ukraine would turn its back on reform, and may re-embrace the grimmest aspects of our Soviet past.
Yanukovych panders to xenophobes and anti-Semites, and his strongest appeal is to the core of angry diehards who detest the collapse of Soviet power.
With high prices for crude oil and natural gas bloating its coffers, Russia is once again aggressively confronting the small and still relatively weak states that fled the eroding Soviet empire 15 years ago.
Given the residual economic and institutional ties born of the Soviet era, Russia’s external influence in this region remains enormous.
The hard-fought independence of the former Soviet republics must not be tacitly traded away in acquiescence to Russia’s desire for regional hegemony.
Russia’s leaders are entitled to the world’s understanding as they struggle to overcome generations of Soviet misrule.
The EEU is seen by its advocates as a step toward re-establishing the old Soviet frontiers in the form of a voluntary economic and political union, modeled on the EU – a project to take the sting out of the West’s “victory” in the Cold War.
In September 1989, Poland had the first government ever led by democratic parties in the Soviet bloc.
Mikhail Gorbachev was important; his non-intervention policy toward Eastern Europe meant that Soviet tanks would not annul the changes, as they had done with the Prague Spring.
This was an important sign for Poland’s neighbors in the Soviet bloc, which took its example to heart.
In fact, it was this rationale that drove the Soviet Union’s massive nuclear buildup: Soviet leaders, recognizing that they could not compete with the much wealthier United States’ conventional weapons, focused their country’s limited resources on creating a potentially devastating nuclear arsenal.
The Goebbels of the KremlinMOSCOW – In Soviet Russia, everybody knew that they were being watched.
The Soviet state saw itself as being at war with almost everything – foreign spies, class enemies, people wearing jeans or playing jazz.
Rather than risking mockery with outlandish claims – a staple of Soviet propagandists – that Russia will one day surpass the West economically, Surkov taps a deeper and safer emotion: fear.
(Joseph Stalin was actually a Soviet nationalist who also denounced Jews as rootless cosmopolitans.)
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