Yeltsin

It's not just Putin who misses the Soviet empire. President Bush did, too

Victor Sebestyen 12 July 2014 9:00 am

In the latest – and best – of the books on the end of the USSR, Victor Sebestyen finds that the only good thing about the Soviet empire was the manner of its passing

Yeltsin

It's not just Putin who misses the Soviet empire. President Bush did, too

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