Soviet and Russian policymakers, not to mention agents of the secret police such as Putin, were especially adept at constructing Potemkin villages that created the illusion of normality amid death and ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is starting 2025 with a bang. In a nod to U.S. President Donald Trump’s desire for a ...
Soviet and Russian policymakers, not to mention agents of the secret police such as Putin, were especially adept at constructing Potemkin villages that created the illusion of normality amid death ...
Soviet and Russian policymakers, not to mention agents of the secret police such as Putin, were especially adept at constructing Potemkin villages that created the illusion of normality amid death ...
The collapse of the crumbling Soviet system in 1989-91 showed it up as a paper tiger: a Potemkin village unable to match the free world in the long run. Now that the once-empty vistas of space are a ...