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...republics scattered like schoolchildren at recess, independent life in what Russians call the "near abroad" has proved tougher than anticipated. Euphoria has slowly been replaced by disgust at the hardships of post-Soviet life: ethnic strife, political instability and government corruption. In the face of these problems, incompetent nationalist leaders, while touting the trappings of independence, have failed to deliver on essentials, such as economic prosperity and domestic tranquillity. The West, to which many of these new nations optimistically looked for salvation, has been both parsimonious and sanctimonious -- long-winded on advice about the ABC's of capitalism, short...
Despite the objections of nationalist critics who fear that Ukraine will lose control of its destiny if it reconciles with its longtime master, Kuchma emphatically told voters that the country has no other viable market and no other realistic source of oil and other resources. Without an "economic union" with Moscow, he declared, "there will be no Ukraine...
...Russian and Chinese contributors, Kim made numerous trips to Moscow to convince Stalin that the South Koreans were ready to join his revolutionary forces. He also reinforced his Soviet patron's belief that the U.S. would never intervene in a Korean conflict. If the Americans would not help the Nationalist Chinese against Mao's forces, he argued, why would they come to the aid of Syngman Rhee? Kim won massive Soviet military assistance, inheriting all the weapons of the Soviet 25th Army, including those confiscated from Japan's defeated armies in the region...
...behave like the good-natured intellectual I really am," Zhirinovsky told TIME editors last week, "I won't get votes. It's war out there, and I'm out to win." Yet the loud applause that greets his vision is no longer confined to the fringes of the Russian nationalist movement. After a stunning success last December when his Liberal Democratic Party won 25% of the vote in the party preference poll, dealing a major blow to Yeltsin and the embattled democrats, Zhirinovsky has seen his support edge toward the mainstream. His followers now include military officers, well-groomed young...
Although Solzhenitsyn has continually asserted, "I am not going into politics, will not run for any office, will not accept any position," the temptation will be great to take sides in the cold civil war between Western- oriented reformers and nationalist-hard-line communists. The reformers have misgivings about Solzhenitsyn's nationalist views, but they have cautiously welcomed his return. Hard-liners see Solzhenitsyn as a rival for the hearts and minds of Russian "patriots," and question his motives; he has already called ultranationalist Vladimir Zhirinovsky "an evil caricature of a Russian patriot." The weekly Zavtra, which speaks for hard...