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Article: No Cold War Two: the United States and the Russian Federation.
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- World Policy Journal
- Article date:
- June 22, 1994
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Ippolit Kirillovich, the prosecutor at the trial of Dmitri Karamazov, borrowed Gogol's image of a troika to describe the Russia he saw, but for Kirillovich the image was an ominous one. "Our fateful troika," he warned, "is racing headlong, perhaps to its destruction.... And if so far the other nation still stand aside for the troika galloping at breakneck speed, it is not all, perhaps, out of respect, as the poet would have it, but simply from horror--mark that--from horror, and perhaps from loathing for her. And still it is good that they stand aside, but what if they should suddenly stop standing aside, and form into a solid wall before the speeding apparition, and ...