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Article: Our Moscow Blinders; The most exciting developments in the former Soviet Union are outside Russia.
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- June 26, 1992
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Two recent events, a few days apart, one witnessed by most
Americans, the other noted only by experts, leave contradictory
impressions about our relations with the former Soviet Union. One,
the visit of President Yeltsin, reinforces a comfortable pattern of
thought. The other, the fighting in Moldova, a place unknown to most
Americans, challenges that pattern of thought as inadequate and even
dangerous.
The Yeltsin trip to Washington, his rousing anticommunist
speech to Congress and the arms control pact, agreed to even without
an assurance of economic aid, presumably show how well the United
States is doing in dealing with the nation that was formerly our
most deadly adversary. By now ...