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For my part, I would not have chosen to accept a one in three – or even a one in six – chance of a disaster that would have killed hundreds of millions and shattered our cities, even if the alternative were a Soviet invasion of Western Europe.
On the contrary, the EU’s commitment to using its extensive soft power is what enabled it to assert its influence over a large chunk of the former Soviet bloc.
But the truth is that hard power was always central to the appeal of European integration, with the former Soviet bloc countries considering the EU and NATO to be two sides of the same coin.
Western diplomats had their countries’ economic interests to consider, but, unlike the Soviet side, they took seriously the idea of “dissidents or trade.”
The fall of communism in the former Soviet bloc coincided with the reinvigoration of Western democracies in the 1980s.
The US and the European Union need to demonstrate clearly to the Russian people that their president’s policies will mean a likely return to the poverty and tyranny of the Soviet era.
In other words, the world that Soviet citizens might have hoped for could represent a different sort of prison – less unpleasant, perhaps, but also more difficult to escape.
The remainder was largely split between the British pound and the Soviet ruble.
Neither Conspiracy Nor Benevolence: The Miracle OfWARSAW: Ten years ago this month the first partially free elections in any Communist country were held in Poland: a crucial step on the road that began with the rise of Solidarity in 1980 and ended with the fall of the Wall in Berlin and the ultimate collapse of the Soviet system.
The Soviet Union’s sudden collapse was a strategic boon to Asia, eliminating a menacing empire and opening the way for China rapidly to pursue its interests globally.
But, with the Soviet Union’s disappearance, the US abandoned that game.
After the Soviet disintegration, even Russia emerged as a credible candidate for democratic reform.
In addition, the itineraries used by the export convoys are no longer limited to the infamous “golden route” through Pakistan and Iran, but have multiplied, employing exit points in former Soviet Republics such as Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.
In the early years after World War II, the Soviet dictator launched a campaign against Jewish intellectuals, scientists, and writers, who were accused of disloyalty to the Soviet Union and bias toward the West.
President Vladimir Putin is the embodiment of nostalgia not so much for Soviet times as for that period’s sacralization of the state, which enabled the government to use, in modern parlance, “fake news” to advance its own ends.
And we’ve got about 5 or 10 years to clean up those old Soviet regimes – Syria, Iran (sic), Iraq – before the next great superpower comes on to challenge us.”
Similarly, whereas an ever-expanding bureaucracy encumbered the Soviet economy, China’s economy benefits from the decentralization of considerable economic authority to local governments.
Given these important differences, China seems unlikely to face anything like the Soviet Union’s fate.
For the Poles and other Easterners, the threat was Soviet imperialism – a threat soon realized in Brezhnev’s crushing of the Prague Spring.
Yeltsin was quintessentially a product of the Soviet system, which makes his turn to democracy and the free market, though imperfect, even more miraculous.
By June 1991, after quashing a series of challenges to his leadership, he became the first elected president of Russia; two months later, real power fell into his hands, after the failed putsch against Gorbachev of August 1991 by conservatives seeking to prevent the Soviet Union’s disintegration.
These risks to democracy are greatest because of the bad and sad traditions of Soviet power and the centuries of the pre-Soviet epoch.
Under free market capitalism we can, at long last, live up to the communist ideal, "The whole Soviet nation like one man!"
The First And Last Soviet ParliamentMOSCOW: The attempt ten years ago to create the first democratically elected parliament in the USSR proved to be the most unpredictable of Gorbachev's reforms; the domestic equivalent, indeed, of his decision to allow Eastern Europe to break with communism.
Nobody in the Soviet leadership knew how to react to these events; no clear decisions were made.
Soviet society was like a lake surrounded by high dams of totalitarian power.
That commonsense alone prevented catastrophe, civil war, and conflicts among the former Soviet republics.
Such cohesion even in the worst of times has even allowed Russia's people to display new respect for the first Soviet president, although these recent displays were caused by the sad death of Raisa Gorbachev.
It was not until 1992 that the Russian Federation, along with 13 other former Soviet republics, became a member.
So I remember my shock when I learned about the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in August, and the trauma that lingered long after.
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