Trump's fawning attitude towards dictators is his ideology at its purest: He meets his own psychological needs first; he thinks about the country las… - Anne Applebaum

If respect for others helped some maintain their humanity, respect for themselves helped others. Many, particularly women, speak of the need to keep... as clean as possible, as a way of preserving... dignity. Olga Adamova-Sliozberg describes how a prison cell mate "washed and dried her white collar and sewed it back on her blouse' every morning." Japanese prisoners in Magadan set up a Japanese 'bath'—a large barrel, to which benches were attached—along the bay. During sixteen months in Leningrad’s Kresty prison, Boris Chetverikov washed his clothes over and over again, as well as the walls and the floors of his cell—before going through all of the opera arias he knew in his head. Others practised exercise or hygienic routines.

Instead of attempting to foster an international Communist revolution, the primary goal is to keep Vladimir Putin in power and make the world safe for Russian corruption, Russian oligarchs, and Russian money. Which might, in fact, prove a lot more appealing than the dictatorship of the proletariat.

[O]ne Western policy stands out as a phenomenal success, particularly when measured against the low expectations with which it began: the integration of Central Europe and the Baltic States into the European Union and NATO. Thanks to this double project, more than 90 million people have enjoyed relative safety and relative prosperity for more than two decades in a region whose historic instability helped launch two world wars.