Russia: Western Creation of the Threatening "Bear" and Pre-Romanov History

May 24, 2023

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“In his present mood, PM [Neville Chamberlain] says he will resign rather than sign alliance with Soviet”

(Sir Alexander Cadogan, British Permanent Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, private diary entry, May 20^th, 1939, quoted in Kotkin 2017, p. 642)

“Russia … a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”

(Winston Churchill, October 1939, quoted in Mett…

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