This is the title of an interview in the weekly magazine Ir with political scientist, historian, and writer Yuri Felshteyn, who has lived in the United States since leaving the USSR in 1978. In it, he traces the continuity of Moscow's policy towards the West:
Putin started as if from the point where Stalin and Soviet dominance left off in Europe... The idea of the Comintern as a union of communist parties has simply been replaced by the idea of creating the 5th International. The Third was communist, the Fourth was Trotsky's International, and the Fifth International would unite all those forces that want to destroy the Western democratic world. Therefore, we see that Putin relies somewhere on the left, somewhere on the right, on the far right, on fascists when necessary, on greens when necessary, and on anarchists.
