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...collapse of the Soviet Union, which has left Russia suspended between communism and democracy, words become elastic. Either they stand for something that has yet to exist, or their meaning is bent to meet the objectives of warring political factions. Here is a short guide to Russia's propaganda campaign...
...rooted in the conviction that it was "us or them": enemies who could not live together, ideas that could not compromise, land demanded entirely by one claimant. Outside intervention might have quelled the quarrels, but only if one side could be vanquished. In the struggle between Western democracy and communism, the danger of using force was literally too great. In the five wars between Arabs and Israelis, neither side could obliterate the other...
...like misery. Surveys reveal that a growing minority, now 14%, feel they would have been better off if the hard-line coup of 1991 had succeeded, 63% say they are sorry the Soviet Union collapsed and 72% believe life under capitalism is even more wretched than it was under communism. So depressed are the Russians that 27% confided to pollsters that they would be delighted to emigrate to Western Europe, even if it meant moving to Britain...
...guilty. The courtroom was packed with security men, since three Egyptian extremist organizations had vowed "revenge" if Abdel Rahman is harmed. Defense lawyers accused the government of conflating rumors and suspicions into a fantasy conspiracy to whip up a new kind of cold war hysteria, substituting Islamic fundamentalism for communism as the enemy...
...hatreds were hardly diminished by the end of the cold war. Standing up to the Soviets, while a daunting task and perhaps one oversimplified at the time, was in some ways less tricky than sorting out the collapse of Yugoslavia or dealing with a persistently sluggish global economy. Communism's demise left grand alliances of countries bereft of ideologies, foes and, ultimately, a vision of where to go next...