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What Americans Don’t Get about Putin: Continuity in Russia is obvious, but there have been important changes there as well.
To remind myself of the hatred I felt for the Soviet Union while it existed, I re-read last month Smiley’s People, the third and final novel of “Karla Trilogy,” John le Carré’s saga of the monumental struggle of British spy chief George Smiley with his KGB counterpart Karla, director of Moscow Centre’s Ninth Directorate. The…