The lasting symbol of the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began last Thursday should be the tank flying a big red hammer and sickle flag of the Soviet Union as it crossed the Russian border into Ukraine. It was no accident.
Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union the “evil empire.” Thanks to him — and Margaret Thatcher and Pope John Paul II — the Soviet Union lost the Cold War and fell apart. Former KGB Colonel Vladimir Putin said that the fall of the Soviet Union and the dissolution of its empire was a major geopolitical catastrophe.
