And over time, these structures of inter-regional exchange—just like those across the western Soviet borders in the 1980s—may give additional impulse to already growing fissiparousness in the Far East and Siberia. . ..…

When NATO was established in 1949 the public was told that the Soviet Union posed a dire threat to Western Europe though there was no credible evidence for this claim, nor has any been found in documents since declassified. ... Its occupation of Eastern Europe was grounded primarily in the..…