The reputation held by the Berlin Wall before it was ‘torn down’ twenty years ago was largely a product of propaganda machines. Clearly, it was just another Cold War myth. It played neatly into a Cold War cliché about The Free World vs. Communist Tyranny. ‘In 1961, the East Berlin communists built a wall to [...]

In Russia, domestic economic health is not synonymous with national power. The country has always had a dysfunctional economy. ‘By contrast, its military power has always been disproportionately strong.’
The Russian security machinery devoted a bigger chunk of its economy to military power. The Russian government has been able to do this ‘Moscow could control its [...]