Even in his dotage, stooped and tissue-skinned and walker-dependent, the former (and final) Soviet Union president Mikhail Gorbachev is an imposing, even intimidating figure — formidable enough to ...

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There are times when sport isn’t a metaphor — it’s simply war, a skirmish of ideals. Think of the Soviet Union’s rival-crushing Cold War hockey team, which between 1978 and 1992 won three Olympic ...