Cold War

Essentialism underlies most demonization: you are what you were born to; change is impossible. It’s what makes Gorbachev’s noble efforts seem pointless. Mikhail Gorbachev speaking at a news conference after a Soviet-American summit in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1986 Credit: Yuryi Abramochkin / Юрий Абрамочкин / Wikimedia Commons I was saddened…

Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev addresses a group of 150 business executives in San Francisco on June 5, 1990.David Longstreath/The Associated Press Mikhail Gorbachev, who presided over the peaceful collapse of the Soviet empire, only to see that legacy succumb to Vladimir Putin’s revanchist Russia, died Tuesday at the age of…

The last Soviet leader brought an end to the Cold War, but his reforms accelerated the break up of the USSR. Published On 31 Aug 202231 Aug 2022 Mikhail Gorbachev, whose reforms brought about the end of the Cold War but led to the collapse of the Soviet Union, has…

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Credited as the man most responsible for the end of the Cold War, Gorbachev was beloved and loathed in equal measure...Read More

For six long years, Mikhail S. Gorbachev assiduously turned his attention to one Herculean chore — dismantling the machinery of repression that his predecessors had so proudly and methodically erected. In a breathtaking series of reforms as Soviet leader, he lifted the Iron Curtain that drew a messy line between…

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War was released in November of 2020, but it wasn’t all that well received. While the reviews were generally quite favourable, the community behind Call of Duty was somewhat split, and a debate erupted as to whether or not Cold War was actually good.…

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken traveled to Africa on Sunday just weeks after his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov toured the continent where he placed blame for grain shortages tied to the war in Ukraine on the West. Photo courtesy Antony Blinken/Twitter Aug. 7 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State…

Over the past six months, Russia has fortified its economic defenses after Western countries pummeled it with sanctions over its invasion of Ukraine.  The Western sanctions and widespread corporate exodus from Russia since Feb. 24 have ravaged the Russian economy—and its future prospects look even bleaker, according to a new…