Those who mourn the demise of the USSR, especially on anniversaries of the August 1991 coup, should be asking themselves, Fyodor Krasheninnikov says, why “if the USSR was such a great and happy country… how did it happen that in 1991 there turned out to be traitors or incompetents?” If they do so, he argues,...
Putin’s men no more likely to defend his system in a crisis than Gorbachev’s were, notes analyst
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