I could not help recalling the late Soviet habit of comparing contemporary economic performance with 1913 ... In the Soviet planned economy, managers knew to exceed targets by exactly 1% ... Even here, Soviet habits are evident.
Russia dismissed U.S. intelligence reports alleging Putin seeks to restore dominance over former Soviet states. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov ca... .
As I got older and traveled across other former Soviet republics, I found comfort in knowing I would always find plov and samsas at eateries in Moscow, Baku and Tbilisi.
Whether or not Donald Trump knows it, his new doctrine of “peaceful coexistence” with America’s enemies is a page straight out of Soviet history during the Cold War... “It was the Soviet Union’s resignation letter from the Cold War as total struggle.
While Soviets were quite prickly towards visitors from the West, within the Soviet bloc I must imagine there was freedom of movement and, perhaps, even a high level of trust — or, so it would appear.
But the systemic subversion practised by covert agents and Soviet assets, as well as the many fissiparous far-Left grouplets, required a trained eye to spot ... Then, with astonishing suddenness, Soviet Communism collapsed.