Introduction

Marlane larel a is director of the institute for european, russian and eurasian studies at g w Eliot school for international relations. She says poton's comments about ukrane caught many Americans by surprise. He said that sukran has a kind of naze pastonna the present. There may be some neonaze element still in it. And so during all the 50 tsixties, until the lapse of the saletinion, there was his image of ukranians nationalis being associated with nazi germany. So he has reactivity that kind of old soviet theme. The cult of the second world warBeing really one of