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Communism was obviously an instrument of Soviet domination over conquered societies, but it was also a modus vivendi for large parts of these nations under the conditions in which they were obliged to live.
But the Party is haunted by the Soviet precedent.
As citizens of a region that endured both Nazi and Soviet occupation, we know all too well the danger of euphemism.
During Soviet times, Byelorussia was an “assembling room” of Soviet industrial production.
After the Soviet tanks put an end to the Prague Spring, a Russian policeman threatened one young Czech that he would “beat the Zappa music out” of him.
And the far left had its own albatross: “really existing socialism” in the Soviet bloc was murderous and unproductive.
Afghanistan has been at war since 1979, when Soviet forces launched a disastrous eight-year military campaign against multinational insurgent groups.
Her relationship with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev opened up the way to ending the Cold War; her privatization policies showed the world how to dismantle state socialism.
And they grossly overestimated the Soviet Union’s ability and will to keep its empire at all costs.
During the Cold War, America's approach to the Middle East was to foster stability in order to prevent the spread of Soviet influence, ensure the supply of oil, and provide security for Israel.
Even if the US – and, to some extent, Western Europe – does retain a competitive edge, it is unlikely to retain the kind of global geopolitical control that it has had since World War II and, especially, since the Soviet Union’s collapse left it as the world’s sole superpower.
The people of Crimea, he says, have corrected a historic Soviet error.
After the Soviet Union’s disintegration in 1991, Russia went from superpower to backwater.
In 1989, I was invited to an economic conference in Moscow, then in the Soviet Union, sponsored jointly by the Soviet think tank IMEMO (now called the Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations) and the United States’ National Bureau of Economic Research.
The Soviet economists seemed enthusiastic about a transition to a market economy, and I was struck by how openly they spoke to us during coffee breaks or at dinner.
Indeed, Russian President Vladimir Putin considers the Soviet Union’s collapse “the largest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century.”
The Soviet leader asked me to control public enthusiasm in order to prevent chaos and bloodshed.
He wanted to know whether it was true that angry mobs were storming Soviet army facilities.
Later, Gorbachev told me that he had been intentionally misinformed by opponents of reform who wanted Soviet troops in East Germany to intervene.
An active Russian civil society, which seemed to appear out of nowhere in Mikhail Gorbachev’s Soviet Union of 1989-1990 after the long Soviet hibernation, receded far too quickly.
The majority of Soviet people did not have a car or a country house or even a separate apartment.
Next month will see the 15th anniversary of the Soviet Union’s disintegration.
For the majority of Russians who grew up in the Soviet system, there is truth in both views, but no place for ultra-radical criticism of the October Revolution and other aspects of socialist life in the 20th century USSR.
But, even today, we are still far from understanding many important factors, connections, motives, reasons, and consequences in what happened in 1917 and during the first years of Soviet power.
Masses of documents and other sources related to the beginnings of Soviet power became accessible for survey and analysis.
I am old enough to remember both the rise and fall of the Berlin Wall, and the ascent and collapse of Nazism, of Fascism, and of Soviet Communism.
America’s troubling ties with Islamist rulers and groups were cemented in the 1980’s, when the Reagan administration used Islam as an ideological tool to spur armed resistance to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
Soviet rule, in both the USSR and its European satellites, was characterized by spiritual and physical oppression, callousness, ignorance, empty monumentalism and a general state of backwardness, boastfully presented as progress.
In the aftermath of World War II, by contrast, the US managed successfully to contain Soviet ambitions.
But, given that the Soviet threat still existed, this effort came too early (and probably was carried out in the wrong manner).
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