Back in the early 90s, my concern was that the Red Army, being an imperial army without an empire, would be the main threat. In retrospect, we should have been more worried about the security "Deep State," which has survived since the Tsarist era & produced Putin.https://twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1439714093179486216 …
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Replying to @baseballcrank
I shared that concern about the Army being the repository of ideology. (It was; on that I was right.) I should’ve thought more about the security guys, but I didn’t expect a guy who had worked for Sobchak to be the vessel of old school Sovietism. :/
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Replying to @RadioFreeTom
My fear was less ideology than the simple fact of power vaccums: a massive army whose purpose & chain of command had been lost.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
That’s a reasonable concern, but add to that the problem that they only had one organizing principle: loyalty to a state that no longer existed. And the level of political indoctrination in the officer corps was intense.
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Yep. I did a paper on this, in the spring of 1992. Being a college student, it wasn't a very good paper.
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