Crackdown

Back here again: Russia is in an Awakening.

“...Their arrest was the beginning of the crackdown. People didn't actually go to jail for peaceful protest in Russia at the time ...They are the first in a long line of people who have gone to jail since.”

I’ve previously wondered what the implication is that the U.S. is evidently two Turnings off from Russia. One reasonable answer is that it has saved all of our lives.  If our countries had been in sync, it would have been a massive feedback loop ending in nuclear war. 

Maybe. Or maybe we’d have been better off, more easily friends in the Crisis, more casual enemies when internal strife appeared. As it is, though, the safe road is to let them handle their internal problems internally. We wouldn’t have appreciated the Soviets taking sides in the Sixties....nor did we.