The Ukrainian Enigma (First Look)
I am old enough to understand what the Cold War felt like. The constant buzz of nuclear holocaust and being tormented by images of the same in the movie “The Day After”. It seemed like every bad guy in every movie (Stripes, Spies Like Us, Rocky IV, every James Bond movie, etc.), drama or comedy, was a Soviet soldier, KGB agent, or East German spy. They could be formidable enemies or clownish imbeciles, but they always lost to the American good guy. I was graduating from Westfield State (back then) College when Communist Russia fell. The Berlin Wall was torn down, and Roger Waters celebrated with a star-studded concert in Berlin of Pink Floyd’s, aptly named, “The Wall”. By my first year of teaching in 1991, Soviet satellite nations started to break away from Russia. Ukraine was one of them. Who knew it would lead to the events of 2022? There’s quite a bit to unpac...