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The Russian Empire, the Soviet Union or the Russian Federation, today, the Kremlin’s occupiers were managed to be recognized as a “great power”.

This ambitions are investigated by the Russian-British historian Sergei Radchenko in the book to manage the world: The Kremlin’s Cold War offered for global power.

Radchenko spoke about the need for the legitimacy of the legislation in the world stage of Moscow and Russia’s role in Ukraine.

Al Jazeera: Considering the hostility between Moscow and the West, can we live in another Cold War?

Sergey Radchenko: There were two authorities against each other in the Cold War. One was the Soviet Union, one was the United States. In today’s environment, there is something like this competition, but it is between the United States and China, not Russia, not Russia.

As in Putin, as in Russia indeed In the same league with China and the United States.

Among these two rival camps during the Cold War – there was a clear mix of the world of the capitalist and the world of the socialist. Today, in some sense, the United States, of course, is the President (Donald) Trump and Russia seems to have more alignment than the contradiction of values. We are no longer heard of Democracy with Him.

But there are also attentions and it seems that there is basic sustainability Nuclear weapons. Inevitably one … they remain as part of the picture.

Al Jazeera: To what extent does the desire to be recognized?

Radchenko: This is the greatest sustainability, between the cold war and the Cold War. I argue that the foreign policy of the Soviet Union, China and Russia today is superior to the desire to be recognized as legal great forces. You can see throughout the Soviet Cold War – the United States also wanted to recognize their status as a joint rights with similar rights. What argues from such recognition is legislation and sometimes they wanted to compromise.

It was even about Stalin (Soviet Leader Josef). People are all kinds of things about Stalin, a cunning dictator and deeply helled, manipulative ones … (but), but with the American recognition, it was better than better earnings without recognition. By 1947, he supported the communists of the Communists in the Greek Civil War, as the British agreement was in agreement with the British in English.

Thus, the principle of foreign recognition, especially the principle of the American recognition of Soviet earnings, I think it is ongoing against Russian foreign policy. If you look at Putin’s foreign policy today, what does he want before? He wants the legitimate assessment of Russian profits in Ukraine’s American recognition. This opinion is obsessed. Feels like he can Decide the fate of Ukraine It is not clear over the heads of Ukrainians and Europeans, because he does not care about them. It takes care of the American jointly the status of great power.

Al Jazeera: What does this great power outlook look like?

Radchenko: This is a great sight of the 19th century in the center of Russia, which Russia’s influence on its neighbors. Soviet leaders were sleeping in the field of the countries with the Soviet Union, Stalin was the 19th century imperialist.

Do they think they have so much? In 1963, Soviet Prime Minister Nikita Khrushchev (Cuban leader) met in the context of Sino Soviet division with Fidel Castro. Castro asked him: ‘Why are you arguing with China?’

‘They want to play the first violin’, Khruschev replied.

Friends company, someone is known as the leader, and according to natural qualities, the Khrushchev’s Sovelior Union deserves a large force and leader of the Soviet Union and felt that he deserved it. Why don’t you ask almost no sense – just do it, don’t you?

Putin continues this tradition in many ways. When others feel that they deny them, they have the responsibility of claiming this claim by violence. And this is what Putin is on occupation of Ukraine. The countries of the service should not be able to postpone the wishes of the Kremlin and do not provide some reason to punish someone to show their location.

Older, clearly thinking, in the field of Russia’s influence, other great forces are allowed. And here’s Putin’s Trump has a slightly parallel thinking. You can see this instantly in the Rhetoric of Trump Panama channel, Canadian As a 51st State, as the way he speaks Greenland – All this thinks that the Western hemisphere is mainly considered America’s playground.

During the Cold War, any problem in the global interests of America was seen to be potentially important. In Vietnam, what is happening in Africa (or) in Africa (or) in Africa, this is all that we are involved in this global fight with the Soviet Union for this global struggle. In West Berlin, which is far from the United States, Americans covering Soviet-ruled East Germany were ready to go to the threshold of the nuclear war to defend the rights of stay there.

Today, Trump’s sight is something else. America’s interests are no longer global.

Al Jazeera: How do big powers and “less” distinguishes?

Radchenko: America was a great power that mostly wants to be recognized. But gradually and reluctantly, China came to know almost a natural right to be a great power.

But at the same time, many European countries felt a very negative view and age. After the Second World War, and after Europe, Europe was completed as it was spent. For a while, perhaps the UK had somehow strong power in Europe, but this impression is that it is not an empire that can confirm the unique greatness, such as an island, for example, there is no unique greatness and there is no unique greatness, such as a unique greatness and there is no unique greatness.

Although today there is a little obsession with a little “Anglo-Saxons” in Russia, there is a kind of kind cunning plot To return the UK to a large power status.

Al Jazeera: Russia has numerous social problems. Why don’t you spend this energy to improve this energy?

Radchenko: Historically, historically determines the size of a country, which is historically to think like a great power, as a great power. In other words, they feel great when they can only dominate others – this emphasizes Russia’s magnitude in many Russians. I think they are above almost everything.

One of the events in the Soviet Union, as a result, did not make a deal. The Soviets claimed that they were a great power, but they could not deliver it for their people.

Today, Russia is trying to hit a balance: on the one hand, the greatness of this empire and one on the one who sells his people; On the other hand, there is still toilet paper. Yes, the quality of life is not as high as Russia could lead to its internal problems and focused on the neighbors. However, it is not a situation as in the USSR. Thus, it allows you to strengthen more than the Soviet model.

Editor’s note: This interview was lightly edited for clarity and sharpness.