Interesting.

Some thoughts on nationalism and the breakup of the USSR. Not sure I agree with it all. Austerity played a large role in many parts of the downfall of the Warsaw bloc etc. I will agree that ethnic nationalism ended up mattering the most and that it still does. I do wonder about what I reading Second hand time, where Russians left in these other countries were essentially attacked and even killed in many cases (and sometimes this was directed at other ethnic groups, and they can only be described as similar to pogroms). I wonder how much that plays a part in current Russian thinking. 

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