Three Horizons of Brazil–Russia Relations

... since the collapse of the USSR, Brazil’s right-wing politicians and a significant chunk of the population still view President Vladimir Putin as a Soviet apparatchik who never cut his functional ties to the KGB. The fact that the KGB has itself been defunct ... ... publicity (which is probably for the better) and the KGB continues to be a grim symbol of all things Soviet. Although influential Brazilian analysts, such as the economist Mailson da Nobrega , insist that “true socialism” died in 1991 and that Bolsonaro’s crusade is pointless, for many Brazilians, the spectre of communism still lives in the Kremlin. The support that Russia is extending ...