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Episode 66: Zubok on the USSR's collapse

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The Ghost of the Disappearing Soviet Union Still Hades the Imagination

The ghost of the disappeared Soviet Union still haunts the imagination. It's not just in Russia, it's also in the West too. Most people, including Putin, had at some time in the early 90s, very clearly said, you know, Marx and Lenin failed. So what is happening today is more like resentment in the revenge after the collapse of the Empire.

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