Remembering the Collapse of the Soviet Empire Differently - Perstroika and Glasnost Not Fondly Remembered by Modern Russian Perceptions

Submitted by M Tovey (United States), Sep 1, 2022 at 14:47

If there is one aspect of the Ukrainian incursion that brings to mind the well-known desires of the Russian leader to return to the Soviet inspired reign of Stalinistic dominance in the region (not just in the current domain of the CIS)y, it is the remembrance that the Ukraine was once the premier territorial holding of the former Украї́нська Соціалісти́чна Радя́нська Респу́бліка; the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. This has got to be frustrating.
The world lives out in this post Soviet era, post Perstroika and Glasnost period of indeterminate Russian ambitions and wavering economies with the one very pertinent, but apparently hard to distinguish aspect that the Russian needs to change that entire paradigm for some ill-perceived process of recovering a sense of validation for taking over the Russian remnants of empire and making it great again. It is his purpose.
It will not end well if it does not go his way; many will pay for opposing it.

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