Moscow Times editorial: Back to the USSR with Putin

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http://www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/02/18/005.html

<"Stylistically, it's back to the U.S.S.R.," said political analyst Andrei Piontkovsky.

Now we have Putin attending a major nuclear war game that was heralded as the largest show of force since Soviet times.

"The war game is very Soviet in style and content, acting out a possible confrontation with the United States and its allies," wrote defense analyst Pavel Felgenhauer

The comparisons to Soviet times are becoming too numerous to ignore.>