The tensions with former Soviet satellite states has saddened Soviet veterans, including Yakov Vinnichenko, who told Russia Today television he was involved in liberating concentration camps.
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Legislator Vladimir Ryzhkov agrees Russiatoday is not the Soviet Union, under which Party officials decided even such matters as whether to allow husbands and wives to divorce.
The Clinton Administration esentially capitulated to Russia's demands today, proposing instead of membership for newly democratic nations of the old Soviet empire an ambiguous "limited partnership" with NATO for virtually any country who wants one -- including Russia.