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To secure the immediate removal of the Soviet missiles, the US considered two main strategies: a naval blockade or an air strike.
Ultimately, the US agreed to remove its own missiles from Turkey and Italy, in exchange for the removal of the Soviet missiles from Cuba.
The power of truth-telling that year created a dazzling sense of possibility, for it proved the undoing of one of history’s most recalcitrant hegemonies: Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.
Havel and Michnik could succeed in part because of the miracle of Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet leader who emerged from a poisoned system, yet who valued truth above force.
And Gorbachev could triumph in part because of the sheer power of honesty of his countryman, Andrei Sakharov, the great and fearless nuclear physicist who also risked all to speak truth in the very heart of the Soviet empire – and who paid for it with years of internal exile.
With the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, the transatlantic alliance confronted new realities.
With no massive Soviet army in the middle of Germany, Europe was no longer firmly divided into Western and Eastern hemispheres.
The Soviet demise encouraged US political elites to construct a “unipolar” view of America’s global position and interest.
The end of Communism removed one important reason: the Soviet Union’s expansionist thrust and the Western democracies’ determination to resist it.
The correct response, said Kennan, should be “containment” of Soviet aggression through the “adroit and vigilant application of counterforce.”
After Stalin’s death, Kennan looked forward to fruitful negotiations with a “mellowing” Soviet system under Nikita Khrushchev.
There was something insane about the whole business, and one is left with the disquieting thought that NATO prolonged the Soviet Union’s life by handing it a ready-made enemy to replace Nazi Germany.
Many of them were eager to escape the Kremlin’s gravity, and NATO expanded eastward into the former Soviet bloc in Central Europe, and even into the former Soviet Union, with the admission of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
In 1996, the 92-year-old Kennan warned that NATO’s expansion into former Soviet territory was a “strategic blunder of potentially epic proportions.”
Only in 1993 did the EU officially recognize that membership for all the former Soviet bloc countries could be a long-term goal.
Many former Soviet Republics with EU aspirations have become victims of this loss of nerve, as have the Western Balkan countries.
For a long time, the slogan “we can repeat” – a reference to the Soviet Union’s WWII victory – was popular in Russia.
So, when Yeltsin’s American-style democratization of the 1990’s failed to bring “orderly” capitalism instantly, Putin on his accession imposed a restoration of state “order,” as if a stable political or economic system demanded a fusing of the Soviet past with the Orthodox Church and Mother Russia imagery.
By blending the Soviet past with the Tsarist past and a few shards of Yeltsin-era democracy, Putin seems to think that he can neutralize the extremes of Russian history.
With the crisis of the 1990's brought on by the collapse of our Soviet patron, many Cubans returned to what Che said about economics, and admit the value of what is achieved with effort.
Most of what remained of socialist ideology was washed away in the late 1980’s with the collapse of the Soviet empire.
Instead, Russia’s leaders are busy protecting Russian markets, banks, and companies from the worst effects of the global financial crisis, consolidating state control over domestic economic sectors, and extending their foreign-policy leverage across former Soviet territory.
Soviet Lessons for Chinese PurgesCLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – On August 1, China’s People’s Liberation Army celebrated its 88th anniversary.
It seems that the lesson from the fall of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in 1964 was not lost on Xi.
To avoid the Soviet Union’s fate, Xi and his colleagues have re-imposed ideological control and curtailed civil liberties.
Firewalls to FreedomNEW YORK – Even the most cold-hearted realists would agree that the failure of Communist censorship played a role in the collapse of the Iron Curtain: Voice of America, the fax machine, rock ‘n’ roll, and the lure of Western capitalism helped to win over the people of the Soviet Bloc.
Immediately after the breakup of the USSR, Russia’s leadership seemed to accept the liberation of former soviet republic from Moscow’s orbit.
Whereas the Central Asian republics’ rulers wished to keep the Soviet structure, it was Yeltsin and the Russian government which wanted to put an end to the Soviet Union and create an independent Russian Federation.
The definition of Russia’s true frontiers, and its relations with the former Soviet republics and the Federation’s own non-Russian regions, is obviously a complex task.
The political and military elements which lament the demise of the Soviet state feed on the resources devoted to extend Russian influence in the non-Russian republics.
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