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The Kremlin also views the US as a source of instability in the former Soviet space and blames the West for the Ukrainian unrest.
The case evokes memories of the days when the KGB’s influence was pervasive, and dissidents across Eastern Europe and Soviet lands like Turkmenistan lived in fear.
He tried to brow-beat investors at a board meeting in the Kremlin where – in good Soviet tradition – everyone was expected to vote unanimously to split the company into small pieces so as to sell them at low prices to cronies, political allies, and friendly oligarchs.
Similar misdeeds, with added twists, exist in the energy giant Gazprom, where old-style Soviet managers misrule.
In 1992, immediately after the Cold War’s end, the United States and the former Soviet Union’s “Unified Team” won a quarter of the medals in Barcelona.
After all, Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet president, managed to change the system that produced him (though perhaps he did not change it enough).
After the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, the Russian poet Alexander Galich wrote: “Compatriots, our homeland is in danger!
After the Soviet Union’s dissolution, the Russian resource economy’s traditional links with Ukraine, including extensive pipeline infrastructure, ensured access to European markets.
Over time, the Soviet press adopted the English term, referring to disidenty.
In 1976, 20 years after Nikita Khrushchev’s “secret speech” denouncing Stalin’s crimes, Alexeyeva was among the founders of the Moscow Helsinki Group, focused on monitoring Soviet compliance with the Helsinki Accords, which had been concluded the previous year by 35 governments from Europe and North America.
The goal of the Accords, largely the result of the Soviet Union’s initiative, was to improve relations between the Cold War antagonists – and, for Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, to formalize international recognition of post-World War II national borders.
So they established the Moscow Helsinki Group to monitor the Soviet government’s compliance and report violations.
According to Robert Gates, who became Director of the CIA in 1991, in the midst of the Soviet Union’s death throes, those who monitored compliance with the Helsinki Accords may have done more to bring down the Soviet empire than the CIA itself.
His signature achievement was joint authorship with then-Democratic Senator Sam Nunn of the 1992 Cooperative Threat Reduction program (universally known as “Nunn-Lugar”), which successfully secured and dismantled nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction in former Soviet states.
During the Cold War, most Europeans tolerated America's tendency to lead unilaterally, because of the Soviet threat and the preponderance of US power.
Putin also manages a highly effective propaganda machine, which churns out a post-modernist pastiche of old Soviet slogans, pre-revolutionary religious rituals, and state-of-the-art marketing ploys inspired by the “consumerist” West.
By contrast, when Poland was liberated from the Soviet version of the Russian imperial yoke, it was seemingly eager to put as much cultural distance between itself and Russia as possible.
Throughout the economy, resources are finally flowing into the ever more efficient and well-organized market sector, rather than into the poorly managed Soviet industrial dinosaurs.
In doing this, he seemed to be following the credo of Stanislav Strumilin, a mastermind of the Soviet "War Economy" in the late 1920s, who said: "I'd rather stand for high rates of growth than sit [in jail] for low ones."
For example, the Soviet system of public-finance management remains virtually intact.
Soviet resources, in terms both of infrastructure and ideology, are exhausted.
Just as Hitler was driven by the desire to reverse the humiliating terms of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended WWI, Putin is focused on reversing the Soviet Union’s dismemberment, which he has called “the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the twentieth century.”
And, unlike US President Barack Obama in Syria and Iran, Putin respects his own red lines: the former Soviet republics are not for the West to grab, and NATO will not be allowed to expand eastward.
The same could presumably be said today of Russia’s fatal attraction to the former Soviet republics.
But democratic transformation in Hungary required an opposition strategy throughout the 1980’s: revolution wouldn’t work, as the Soviet invasion in 1956 showed.
Soviet authorities relied on an idiosyncratic definition of schizophrenia, introduced by a professor of psychiatry (A.V. Snezhnevsky) in Moscow.
If a dissident demonstrated against the Soviet system at least twice - say, by distributing illicit writings - the "delusions" signified schizophrenia.
And, in 1991, the first Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I) cut the bloated US and Soviet nuclear arsenals by 80% over a decade.
Before I became Soviet leader in 1985, relations between the Cold War superpowers had hit rock bottom.
The organization’s output would be sympathetic to, or at least not critical of, the Soviet viewpoint.
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