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A collage of various Confederate and Soviet "memorabilia," including a bust of Vladimir Lenin, a statue of Robert E. Lee, and various postage stamps. (Illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Toxic nostalgia: MAGA's Russia syndrome

Dzmitry Halko
Abandoned diner that hasn't been used in a long time (Getty Images/AndresCalle)

Are we like the Soviet Union in 1990?

Jackson Diianni
President Jimmy Carter and German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt at a summit of industrialized nations in London, May 8, 1977. (Photo by Pool SIMON/UZAN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Jimmy Carter's lasting Cold War legacy

Robert C. Donnelly - The Conversation
Apollo 11 rises past the launch tower pad 39A to begin Man's first lunar landing mission, Kennedy Space Center, July 16, 1969 (Photo12/UIG/Getty Images)

America's dubious Space Race recruits

Matthew Rozsa
Pres. Bush (R) & Soviet Pres. Gorbachev shaking hands, all smiles, holding summit press conference, 1989 (Dirck Halstead/Getty Images)

Gorbachev: The missed opportunity

John T. McNay
This Dec. 8, 1987, photo shows President Ronald Reagan with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev during welcoming ceremonies at the White House on the first day of their disarmament summit. (JEROME DELAY/AFP via Getty Images)

Mikhail Gorbachev dies at 91

Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams
(Getty/Annabelle500)

The secret Soviet whale tale

Ryan Jones - The Conversation
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) (Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images)

Rand Paul goes to bat for Putin – again

Jon Skolnik
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, 1963 (Imagno/Getty Images)

The USSR's golden age of science

Matthew Rozsa
In this handout provided by the U.S. Air Force, an air crew assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron assists evacuees aboard a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 21, 2021 in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Taylor Crul/U.S. Air Force via Getty Images)

The graveyard of empire strikes back

Chris Hedges
Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Kim Jong-Un and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The biggest of Republican Big Lies

Cody Cain
(AP/J. Scott Applewhite)

Chase CEO is a socialist, says Sanders

Paul Adler - The Conversation
Alex Gibney (Victoria Will/Invision/AP)

Alex Gibney on Putin and the oligarchs

Andrew O'Hehir
Donald Trump; Vladimir Putin (AP/Getty/Salon)

(In)famous Western alliances

Alexei Bayer - The Globalist
US President Donald Trump (R) and Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (L) meet at the Oval Office of White House in Washington, D.C., while Russian President Vladimir Putin looms in the background (Mikhail Svetlov/Russia Foreign Minister Press Ofice /Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

Russia and the Republicans

Lucian K. Truscott IV
Mike Pompeo and Bill Barr (Getty Images/AP Photo/Salon)

Right's attack on CIA, State is old news

Heather Digby Parton
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media as he meets with President of Romania Klaus Iohannis in the Oval Office of the White House August 20, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Getty/Alex Wong)

Trump congratulates Poland as it mourns

Shira Tarlo
This June 6, 1944, file photo shows American soldiers of the Allied Expeditionary Force securing a beachhead during initial landing operations at Normandy, France, June 6, 1944. From the first sketchy German radio broadcast to the distribution of images filmed in color, it has taken decades for the full story of the D-Day invasion to come out. At the time, the reporting, filming and taking of photos was neither easy nor straightforward. (AP Photo/Weston Haynes, File) (AP)

The art of shaping memory

Andrew J. Bacevich
A photo of the author's grandfather (Courtesy of the Author)

My grandfather was a Nazi collaborator

Silvia Foti
Demonstrators march down North Capital Street during protest march within sight of the capitol in Washington, June 14, 1963; Demonstrators protest as they celebrate the verdict in the murder trial of Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke along Michigan Avenue on October 5, 2018 in Chicago, Illinois. (AP/John Rous/Getty/Joshua Lott)

Russia and racism: A brief history

Paul Rosenberg
(AP/Shutterstock/Salon)

Socialist response to Trump's redbaiting

Vaios Triantafyllou - Truthout
President Jimmy Carter just minutes before he addressed the nation from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington by radio and television, Jan. 4, 1980. The president announced a complete halt of shipments of U.S. high technology to the Soviet Union and a partial embargo on American grain sales because of the Russian intervention in Afghanistan. (AP/Barry Thumma)

Profiting off Carter's grain embargo

Tom Dittmer
Vladimir Putin; Bill Browder (AP/Getty/Salon)

Browder and Putin: A long, tangled tale

Andrew O'Hehir
A photo of the author's grandfather (Courtesy of the author)

My grandfather was a Nazi collaborator

Silvia Foti
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