Take this as you will, but in my view, Russia and the Soviet Union are not and were not my country. I can’t make historical moral evaluations for them. However, I can do that for the country I live in. And as a historian who studies the CW era, the “whose to blame” questions always left me cold and bored. YMMV, of course, as plenty of historians of the CW era or the Soviet era like to think about those sorts of questions. I guess I’m more interested in questions related to what specific conditions were created by the CW and how people (in my case, specifically young people who thought of themselves as part of the imagined community of a global counter/subculture) responded to that.
If there is a threat, it’s probably much less from Daesh or Al-Qaeda, or even Iran, and much more from North Korea right now.
Sure. But, I bet they there are still people who do feel some sort of pride.
