A Chekist on the Global Chessboard
Brian Lamb: Correct me if I’m wrong, but did you say [Putin] was a ‘Cheka’? Anne Applebaum: Putin was a member of the secret police, which was later called the KGB. And the old name — the Leninist era...
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“Unlike you, I have absolutely no desire to be Russian or to return to Russia. I used to love a certain idea of Russia. I loved and defended this idea of Russian culture, which in the 1970s and ‘80s...
View ArticleRussia’s Hero-less History
“[H]alf a century after the end of World War II, the Germans still conduct regular public disputes about victims’ compensation, about memorials, about new interpretations of Nazi history, even about...
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