The Fall of the Soviet Union
Warfare
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Nationalism and the Soviet Union
As long as there is a strong central power, nationalism of the subject people does not flourish wet. Once there is a sense among the estonians and liquenians and georgians and armenians that the central power is disintegrating, then nationalism suddenly acquires great force. It seems to us that they are just hypocrites. They really manage to convince themselves. Lukashenko believes that what he is doing is good. And asad believes that he is holding together a regime, and that's good. How can people do that? But they do.
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