Nazarbayev has used a heavy hand to guide Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic, through decades of a post-communist transition that has turned the country into Central Asia’s economic powerhouse. ..…
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The operative word, however, is “we” because “we” included the Soviet Union, which was ruled by one of the most brutal communist regimes in the world. ... If the United States could survive the communist Soviet Union, there is no reason to conclude that it..…
Communist China, the fourth largest country in the world, was to be attacked in synchronization with the Soviet Union. ..…
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