(couldn't find one of their banner on fire).
(couldn't find one of their banner on fire).
"When the people have a free press, former soviet states are allowed to govern themselves, and a KGB agent is not running the country I'll be interested in building bridges. Until then...."By the way, in the past 15 years a relatively "free press" existed in Russia - only since the time Putin assumed power, has the authoritarism began to return. And there are still several degrees of control between what the society is in Russia today, versus what was like in 1982, for example. Anyone who lived there can tell you that. As for the ex-Soviet states, do you consider the central Asian "stans" which are now ruled by their own tinpot dictators, "communist"? Some of them, like Turkmenistan have an even more backward form of government than late-day USSR ever was, second only to Stalin's era.