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You're not joking. I'm reading thru "Stalin" by Stephen Kotkin, and Stalin was using the term "capitalist encirclement" at least as far back as the 1920s. I ge
by bdjsiqoocwk 3y ago
You're not joking. I'm reading thru "Stalin" by Stephen Kotkin, and Stalin was using the term "capitalist encirclement" at least as far back as the 1920s.
I get the impression that Russian state police in its different incarnations (cheka/OGPU/KGB/GRU) never really went away, they just launder the exterior (Russian Empire/USSR/Russian Federation) and keep going.
- euroderf 3y agoHah, can it all be traced back to Kievan Rus ? Or even the Mongols ?
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- HillRat 3y agoThat was basically the thesis of Kennan's "Long Telegram" (https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/coldwar/documents/episode-1/kennan.htm https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/coldwar/documents/episode-1/kenna...).
- bdjsiqoocwk 3y agoThanks for the link. Some times you hear ideas, forget you heard them, they come back in your mind and you think they're your own. I don't know if that's the case here, but I know I'd never directly read this text, thank you.