In a few days, we will commemorate the 30th anniversary of the fall of the USSR, with indifference as general as it is revealing.
While in the West we never stop watching for the rebirth of fascism, even if it means mobilizing against its ghost or assimilating men who have nothing to do with it, we seem to believe that communism, he disappeared without leaving a trace.
In Western memory, there is only one bad memory left.
Stalin, Solzhenitsyn in the Gulag, and the fall of the Wall are well remembered, but all of these are definitely classified in ancient history.
This does not prevent some nostalgic, perhaps more numerous than one thinks, from confessing some tenderness for an empire which, from their point of view, was the bearer of balance on a global scale.
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