Endgame of the Long Cold War
... core Eurasian states, and therefore the main causative factor of the schism which was a historical and normative factor, of the late 1950s and 1960s has been eliminated. As for the second causative factor of the schism, the attitude to Stalin’s historical role is very different today, to the one that prevailed in the USSR in 1956 and after, contributing to the Sino-Soviet split. The third factor was the role of ideology which too is irrelevant today— given that the ideological factor is not shared, there is no ground for doctrinal and quasi-religious disputation ...
21.06.2019