Anders Åslund Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Anders Åslund

How illustrative! If Lenin, why not his disciple, Stalin? Russia needs a real denazification and decommunization. They are the same thing as Alan Bullock pointed out in his "Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives" book. Next? Will Putin praise Hitler for his great denazification?! https://t.co/T5u1Ls3q26

Anders Åslund

I have just read Bill Browder's excellent new book "Freezing Order." I can warmly recommend it. it reads like a thriller, enlighten you how the Russian authorities are working with organized crime & utilized US courts for their heinous acts. https://t.co/avtngbODYa

Anders Åslund

How illustrative! If Lenin, why not his disciple, Stalin? Russia needs a real denazification and decommunization. They are the same thing as Alan Bullock pointed out in his "Hitler and Stalin: Parallel Lives" book. Next? Will Putin praise Hitler for his great denazification?! https://t.co/T5u1Ls3q26

Anders Åslund

@ArsenKazydub I think that for Russia 1991 was like Germany in 1918: Lost but not defeated. If Russia loses this war - which I think - the regime is likely to collapse & various ethnic regions are likely to declare independence, as Yegor Gaidar predicted in 2006 ("Collapse of an Empire").

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Anders Åslund

The 11 Trumpist GOP senators who voted for Putin: Rand Paul (Ky), Marsha Blackburn (Tenn), John Boozman (Ark), Mike Braun (Ind), Mike Crapo (Idaho), Bill Hagerty (Tenn), Josh Hawley (Mo), Mike Lee (Utah), Cynthia M. Lummis (Wyo), Roger Marshall (Kan) and Tommy Tuberville (Ala).

Anders Åslund

@MatsLBengtsson @jensabrahamsson @Cornubot @Upplyser Habermas är den sista överlevande från den marxistiska Frankfurterskolan, gammal nyvänster. Leszek Kolakowski har diskuterat hans idéer väl i hans utmärkta "Main Currents of Marxism."

Anders Åslund

As late PM Yegor Gaidar predicted in his 2006 book "Collapse of an Empire," Putin has now endangered the cohesion of Russia itself, for which he of course blames the West. If Putin fears that Russia will fall apart, it is likely to happen.

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""Victory” would lock Russia into a long-term disaster." Pro-Kremlin Dmitri Trenin: “For the first time in Russian history, Russia doesn’t have any allies in the west.” Russia's only ally is Iran. "How did Putin get his country into this mess?"

Anders Åslund

Bundesnachrichtendienst seems to have understood nothing about Russia or Ukraine. Luke Harding reported: Its "boss, Bruno Kahl, was in Kyiv when Russia’s attack began. Kahl had to scramble out of the country by car…” He told all no invasion was coming. He still heads BND.

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Amazingly, the governments of Italy, France & Germany not to mention Henry Kissinger (99 today) fail to understand (or don't care) that Putin's assault on Ukraine has led to an existential crisis for both Ukraine & Russia.