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“Soviet break-up was geopolitical disaster

…d once in the race, which continued until 1983. Since 2003, in his spare time, Wright has collected leftovers from the Soviet space program, “including a 100-pound hatch from a space shuttle, a seat from a Soyuz... control panels from the Mir”, and the control console of the So...

…ither. In relation to the timeline of the first dissident message, I’d say we’re around the year 1988, when raising the Soviet-occupation topic was no longer a career-ending move but you still had to somewhat hedge your position. I hear similar hedging now—statements like, “Tm no...

the goal of keeping the Soviet navy out of

…August 1921 when a high-ranking official of the Communist regime in Russia named Aleksandr Yakushev slipped away from a Soviet trade delegation in Estonia and sought out a leading anti- Communist exile he had known before the revolution in Russia. He then told him that he represe...

…”—Author’s interview with Andrei Lugovoi 5. “It was a rare...”— The vast majority of the 15 Americans defectors to the Soviet Union in the Cold War, including Joel Barr, Morris and Lona Cohen, Victor Hamilton, Edward Lee Howard, George Koval, Bernon Mitchell, William Martin, Isa...

…ble. But would the general decline in military budgets hold? Would the new national boundaries that divided the former Soviet Union and the former Yugoslavia be sustainable? As modern authoritarianism has taken root and ex- panded its influence, the answers to these questions a...

…tory, overstating the threat of subversion from China risks causing overreactions reminiscent of the Cold War with the Soviet Union, including an anti-Chinese version of the Red Scare that would put all ethnic Chinese under a cloud of suspicion. Right now, I believe the harm we...

…ner’s first customer and later friend was Alexander Zuyev, the pilot who defected in spectacular manner from the former Soviet Union in 1989, at the same time delivering a MiG-29 into western hands. “He loved America and would have the most incredible Fourth of July parties. But...

…1978 the United Kingdom petitioned the UNCHR to appoint a special rappourteur for human rights in Cambodia. Syria, the Soviet Union, and Yugoslavia blocked the move. Instead of appointing a rappourteur, the commission invited comment by the Khmer Rouge, referred the matter to a...

…second development was the introduction of the in- ternet and other digital media. In the wake of the col- lapse of the Soviet Union, communist governments in HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019242

…terests, lie on the West Bank. He lived there. But like many in the party he led, he had come to Israel from the former Soviet Union, shaping a worldview that in many ways remained European, and pro-Western. He was worried about creating the impression of blanket Israeli intransi...

…re, violence and corruption, especially in Africa. But the decisive event for the revisionists was the collapse of the Soviet empire, which not only left the United States top dog globally, but also seemed, to the more philosophically minded, to vindicate Western civilization an...

this has been impossible. There has been no great power with the appetite and the will for such an adventure. But 15 years is not even a generation

…r jets. Other, much larger nations had endured months, even years, of hell before prevailing in such circumstances: the Soviet Union, for instance, with its huge strategic depth, or France, rescued by its American-led allies, during World War Two. But any pride in having prevail...