Soviet Union

EAST GERMANY: Wellmer's observation that the war in Ukraine has triggered a new distance or 'Entfremdung' between East and West Germany is apt. Criticism of Putin is experienced today by East Germans as an attack on their East German identity. The West is now wronging Russia in the same way that West Germany dominated the East after the fall of the Wall.

KENNEDY: He said in his speech in 1963: "Where ignorance too often abounds and truth too seldom prevails, the most important subject we have is: world peace." Was it possible, as he said, "to create conditions so that weapons can finally be abolished"? According to Kennedy, the struggle for disarmament had been a matter for US governments since the 1920s. This has not been the case for very many of his successors.

EU: Europe has never become an adult and responsible player in a multipolar world. And a common foreign and security policy has never gone beyond the sketch plane. Will it happen now?

RUSSIA: Mikhail Shishkin has long pointed out that Russia, unlike Germany, has never come to terms with its totalitarian past.

War: What will I do on the day the war is over and Russia is forced back behind the borders that applied before Putin in 2014 first went wild on Ukraine?

iDEOLOGY: MODERN TIMES brings, due to today's attention to Russia, a look at the Soviet Union 50 years ago. In the book from 1972, Herbert Marcuse describes and assesses the conditions, condition and possibilities of the Soviet Union – and Soviet Marxism as an ideology.

UKRAINE: What are the consequences of US and NATO expansion eastwards in Europe?

DIPLOMA: The Soviet Union and the Eastern European satellite states gained influence in the world through a so-called gift diplomacy that spawned strings of architectural beauties. By Hans Henrik Fafner

Utopia: An essayistic documentary that stretches towards future visions and utopias, but with a bleak foundational tone and inability to see any way out of the paralysis it describes.

oligarchs: Is former Yukos chief and one of Russia's powerful oligarchs, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a villain or a dissident?

ENEMY IMAGES: What do we really know about hidden activities, power games and secret submarine operations in Swedish waters?

RUSSIA: The idea of ​​serving the motherland is still relevant as a tool for indoctrination.

USA VS CHINA: The US foreign policy elite practices anti-Chinese rhetoric and has cut diplomacy in favor of demands.

When NATO history is written in Norway, it is always the "coup in Czechoslovakia" that is the starting point. (ORIENTATION 22 APRIL 1969)

Once, the dilapidated hotel on Lake Sevan in Armenia was a fashionable place for Soviet Union writers. On the way into the driveway it has become 1962.

The fall of the Soviet Union was understood as the final victory of capitalism over communism. But there is someone who wants to restore it and give communism political significance today.