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Article: SOVIET UNION Moscow is viewed as winning postwar role
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 24, 1991
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BERLIN -- The outcome of the Persian Gulf war still hangs in the
balance, but in Europe one clear victor is already apparent: the
Soviet Union.
In the past week, analysts said, the Soviet Union, under the
leadership of President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, reestablished itself as
a force in the Middle East and rebuilt some of the diplomatic
credibility shattered by the collapse of communism across Eastern
Europe.
"It's astonishing," said Olin Robison, a visiting fellow at the
Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. "The Soviet
Union, which for 25 years has been basically held at arm's length in
the Middle East by the US, has now at its weakest point in decades
turned all that around ...