The Americans hate communism like anything . More often than not, they make a fun of it. Time was when there used to be two leading publications of Moscow named as Pravda and Izvestia. I believe they are still published. One represented the Communist party of the Soviet Union and the other was the mouthpiece of the sitting government of the Soviet Union. Pravda means ‘ Truth’in the Russian language while Izvestia means ‘the news’. The Americans used to say sardonically that when one reads Izvestia there is no Pravda in it. Likewise, if one goes through Pravda one doesn’t find any Izvestia in it.
They also used to say sarcastically that an American once said to a fellow Russian that in his country he can enter the President’s Oval office in the White House and pounding his desk with his hand can tell him Look Mr President I don’t like the way you are running the government. The Russian told the American that what is the big deal in it . I can also enter into the Kremlin and pounding at the office table of my President tell him to his face that look Mr President I hate the way the American president is running his country.
The mighty Soviet Union crumbled in 1991 and 14 states, including six Muslim countries, separated from it. President Putin is one of those millions of Russians who are still licking the wounds inflicted on them by the dismemberment of their country and they are trying to find their feet once again. Moscow has been at odds for quite some time now with Ukraine which was its part and parcel before 1991 and they have come to blows more than once during the recent past over a boundary dispute. Which way the wind blows? The coming days would answer this question. If the European countries looked the other way the Russians are quite capable of destabilising Ukraine.
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