Propaganda-driven nostalgia for the Soviet Union’s Cold War-era “great power” status is obscuring the lessons of that time. The Soviet Union was an unsustainable empire; if it could not survive at a time when isolation and bipolarity were the order of the day, it certainly could not be recreated within today’s interconnected multipolar global system.
但是，最终，必须由俄罗斯做出改变。用宣传机器煽动对苏联冷战时期“超级大国”地位的怀念让人们无法看到当时的教训。苏联是一个不可持续的帝国；既然它无法在孤立主义和两极政治作为世界秩序的时期存在，那么显然也无法在当今互联多极的全球体系中重建。