THE LEGACY OF COMMUNISM IN RUSSIA
Ever since the fall of communism in Russia in 1989, the past has constantly come back to haunt or influence the present. Matthew Brzezinsk, the author of, Casino Moscow, writes about his experiences about going back to the Soviet Union and observing all that goes on today in the 'free' country of the former Soviet Union. There is still widespread corruption, just as there was back in the cold war days. Mayors still went about hanging up their pictures everywhere just as former leaders had. (Brzezinsk 153) The legacy of yesterday is now creating a legac…
