The rhetoric of "fight for peace" and the reality of the arms race — this was the basis of Soviet foreign policy. (c) AP/Press Association Images. All rights reserved.
This is the final part of Kirill Kobrin’s series on the death of the post-Soviet project. Read the first part here.
A country that most of the world wished well, a country that became fashionable for a time, a country that received humanitarian aid — and a country that was assumed to have a glorious future before it — has turned, if not into a pariah state, at least into a global “scarecrow”.
