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, [...]