“Obsessed with Soviet Communism, Washington protected repressive Middle Eastern regimes in return for compliance with American hegemonic designs and uninterrupted flows of cheap oil and gas. And all ...
Later, the Soviet Union helped establish the State ... We need a proper position for Russia in the Middle East to have peace. It might sound arrogant, but I think Russian presence in the Middle ...
marking the end of the period of improved Soviet-American relations known as detente. The Soviets had grown wary of American moves in the Middle East and feared that Afghanistan could become an ...
Prague, Czechoslovakia, May 9, 1945: A crowd cheering the arrival of Soviet troops in a tank. As the Allied forces moved in from the West to secure a German defeat in World War Two, the Soviet ...