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The Memory Trap

Why remembrance of past imperial glory holds back Russia today. Part of an FP series, 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. BY NINA L. KHRUSHCHEVA | NOVEMBER 6, 2009 The dramatic events of 1989 hinged on decisions made in Moscow. Mikhail Gorbachev changed the world when he decided not to send Soviet tanks to Berlin on November 9. A believer in Foreign Policy The Memory Trap…

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