Drawing Putin Into War
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The Russian Empire and the Soviet Union
"We set our expectations way too high at the beginning people for reasons having to do with the euphoria of the collapse of the berylline wall. We really don't think fully internalized how this collapse of the external empire was going to make russia feel both like something that belonged to it had been taken fairly or unfairly as well as ultimately had made russian less secure," he says. "The other thing that we didn't really understand is how much having a centralized government was really important to people like pouton"
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