Seventy years ago, Winston Churchill repeatedly took to the floor of the House of Commons to warn his nation against the growing menace posed by the steady accretion of military might by Nazi Germany.

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Indeed, a genuine structural transformation of Russia along democratic and free market lines is a serious menace to the future viability of the ex-Soviet military-industrial complex and intelligence apparatus, their access to resources and freedom of operation.

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