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In the former republics, the politicins who favor strong ties to Russia are also those who favor a return to old Soviet ways and thus the forces behind stronger intra-CIS ties are not those of liberals interested in European Union-type arrangements, but lobbies who loath markets and pluralism and wish to restore planning, conformity, indeed all the old Soviet ways.
In fact, long-term price trends for the mineral resources upon which the economy depends, together with Russia’s history (especially the last two decades of Soviet rule), suggest that Putin’s luck may well be about to run out.
But the Soviet Union’s aging communist leadership, encouraged by the OPEC-generated oil-price explosion and the discovery of massive hydrocarbon reserves in western Siberia, took a different tack, using natural-resource revenues to finance continued military expansion.
In an effort to appease the public, the Soviet leadership increased food imports – both directly (meat imports, for example, quintupled from 1970 to 1980) and indirectly (by increasing feedstock imports).
As a result, the Soviet economy became even more dependent on resource revenues, making it extremely vulnerable to price fluctuations in international commodity markets.
Today, the Russian economy is no more resilient than it was in the late Soviet era, with commodities, especially oil and natural gas, accounting for around 90% of total exports and manufacturing for only about 6%.
A lasting deficit would eliminate the major economic difference between Putin’s Russia and its Soviet counterpart during the 1980’s – namely, the financial buffer that has been accumulated over the last decade.
Just as KGB officers depicted themselves as the Soviet state’s ultimate protectors, so Putin believes that he alone is capable of effectively countering threats to Russia.
This would provide a platform to re-establish trade, transport, and other links among former Soviet countries and thus capture regional markets for Russian products, guarantee Russian jobs, and re-assert Russian political influence in its old neighborhood.
In his own neighborhood, Putin is presiding over the re-creation of a Soviet Union-lite, whose success or failure now depends on decisions made in Kiev, Brussels, and Vilnius, rather than in Moscow.
The illness resembles a political version of Jean-Paul Sartre’s existential nausea, and led to both the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the Soviet Union’s demise with Mikhail Gorbachev’s Perestroika.
But whereas the CPSU’s demise was perfectly logical – Yeltsin’s decree came just months before the Soviet Union’s collapse – the decline of major political parties in countries like France and India is not so easy to explain.
Working-class voters’ move to the middle class did as much to kill off Western Europe’s communist parties as the failure of the Soviet regime.
But the proposals ran into outright opposition from Joseph Stalin, who would accept no limit to the Soviet Union’s ability to develop its own nuclear weapons.
Former spies now sit atop the commanding heights of Russia’s energy-centric economy, but their role is not all that different from what it was in Soviet days.
Through its control of natural gas pipelines, Gazprom is by far Russia’s chief tool for maintaining influence in the former Soviet former republics of Central Asia, the Caucasus, Belarus, Ukraine, and even in the Baltic states (now EU members).
After all, the Soviet Union collapsed not because of Ronald Reagan’s military build-up in the 1980’s, with which communism was unable to compete, but because the Soviet command economy had already become obsolete in the 1970’s.
When Mikhail Gorbachev spoke of a “Europe from the Atlantic to the Urals,” his conception was not of a continent under Soviet domination, as Josef Stalin once threatened.
They recoiled at the Soviet bloc’s disintegration.
This cleared a path to the peaceful dismantling of communist dictatorship throughout the entire Soviet bloc.
In 1971, it was the Soviet Union’s support, rather than that of the NAM, that helped India to overcome the refugee crisis caused by Pakistan’s genocide in Bangladesh.
Indeed, by using the West to launder their dirty money, Putin and his cohorts have, in a way, avenged the Soviet Union’s collapse by undermining the West’s principles and discrediting liberal democracy in the eyes of the Russian population.
Stalin’s body was removed from Red Square, Stalin monuments were destroyed, and cities restored their original Soviet names.
Although Russia’s future is uncertain, its history is becoming clearer, in part because we now know that the Twentieth Party Congress started the process that brought about the end of Soviet despotism.
We, the People of a United Europe...PRAGUE - Ten years ago when our continent was divided, its largest part under Soviet rule, the western half had a clear task: preserve democratic values on European soil.
In one of the film's many charged sequences, McNamara explains to a trigger-happy admiral that the naval blockade Kennedy had imposed on Cuba was primarily intended as a signal to Chairman Khrushchev of Kennedy’s resolve, not as a means to stop specific Soviet ships.
But Kennedy was anxious about the consequences of having Soviet missiles in Cuba on Berlin.
McNamara believes an invasion would “certainly” have triggered a Soviet nuclear attack against the US.
For Khrushchev’s control over the Soviet military in Cuba was limited;U2 planes flying over Cuba were shot at despite Khrushchev’s explicit orders to the contrary.
Russia, for its part, has invaded two former Soviet republics in the last decade, and its military spending as a share of GDP has been increasing almost exponentially.
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