Putin’s Hand Can Clearly Be Seen In the Chaos of a Destabilized West - Kovalev

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Putin’s Hand Can Clearly Be Seen In the Chaos of a Destabilized West
By Andrei A. Kovalev On 9/3/17 at 2:10 AM

What role is Russia playing in the difficulties the United States, Europe, and other countries are experiencing?

Does the Kremlin reject the existing world order and aspire to a new division of the world?

Did Moscow's political kitchen deliberately help to concoct the loathsome dish of domestic and international terrorism, the tsunami of refugees, and political destabilization in many countries?

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There can be no simple and straightforward answers, but serious consideration of recent Russian history leads to distressing conclusions.

When the totalitarian USSR collapsed there was cause for hope. The germs of a multi-party, parliamentary system and free enterprise appeared, political and religious freedoms were guaranteed, censorship vanished, and the mass media were liberated. Soviet citizens were free to travel, and punitive psychiatry ended.

And then–recoil. In 1993 President Yeltsin dealt a crushing blow to the parliamentary system, killing several hundred people in the process. Russia practiced genocide against its own people in Chechnya. Political assassinations and the murder of journalists commenced.

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