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The Fall of the Soviet Union, with Vladislav Zubok

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Do You Think That E Putin Wants to Restore the Soviet Union?

The situation with ukraine has a long story. Goes back exactly to the collapse of the soviet union, when yalsen and the first president of krafchuk signed a number of treaties. And even at the time, in november, in december 19 91, quite openly in press in moscow and kief, one could read about war scenarios. So they spoke that ukranian russian war could even go nuclear at the time. But nato, nato's plans. Without it, probably we would not have had what were havin now, including troep concentrations. What it amounted to, at least as i understand putin's reasoning

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