(See my bookFailed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist Russia.) ... This means, as Russia’s “patriotic nationalists” have always argued, that Washington will never accept Russia as an equal great power in world affairs, no matter who rules Russia or..…

Recall that throughout the Cold War, the official enemy was Russia and the rest of the Soviet Union, along with “godless communism” and the supposed worldwide communist conspiracy to take over the world, which, they said, was based in Moscow. . ..…

Moreover, the alleged “communist” threat in those days was on America’s doorstep in central America, not thousands of miles away on Russia’s doorstep, as in the case of the Ukraine and Crimea. . ..…

Buzgalin has lived under communism in the Soviet Union and in post-communist Russia. ... Hated regimes like Batista in Cuba, the Czars in Russia, and the Guomindang in China were capitalist or feudalistic in orientation. . ..…