Putin’s brutal imperialism
Putin signalled early during his rule his fury that Moscow’s former empire had slipped the leash. After he took over in 2000, one of his first acts was to appoint a new ambassador in Budapest.
He chose Valerii Musatov, a Soviet party apparatchik who supervised Hungary’s loyalty to Moscow after the crushing of the 1956 uprising: as if post-war Germany chose as ambassador to France a senior Nazi official from the occupation.
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Mark Higgie is The Spectator Australia’s Europe correspondent and is on Twitter at @markhiggie1
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