nato in the age of putin and trump

He urged Soviet satellites in eastern Europe to follow his path of “restructuring” (perestroika) and “openness” (glasnost). And when these satellites spun out of the Soviet communist orbit in 1989 he did not employ force to keep the bloc together. ..

kazakhstan’s soviet-era leader resigns after 30 years

After all, President Nazarbaev is 78 years old and Central Asia’s only remaining Soviet-era leader. . In his televised announcement, Nazarbaev stated that Kazakhstan’s task under his rule had been “to build a market economy, dismantle the totalitarian ideological system [of the Soviet..

antiwar.com original

In that space opera, which appeared in 1991 just as the Soviet Union was imploding, peace finally breaks out between the quasi-democratic Federation (think: the USA) and the warmongering Klingon Empire (think: the USSR). ..

wednesday forum: march 20, 2019

The move coincides with a senior Russian military official’s outburst that children in Russia have become “afraid of machine guns” since the fall of the Soviet Union, a development which he declared as not “normal”. . . ..

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