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From Russia, With Love. . . .

Saturday, March 25th, 2006
     Sometimes I find that I miss the Cold War.  The Soviet Union was an evil, intractable adversary.  The stakes on every confrontation were high.  That all ended starting in the mid- to late-80s, with Solidarity in Poland, Glasnost and Perestroika in the Soviet Union, the collapse of the Berlin Wall and German reunification, [...]