The remarkable and valiant fight put up by the Soviet Red Army during the Second World War actually put an end to the Nazi Germany and buried the Thousand Years Third Reich. Just after the war, the Allies were fearful of the politico-military power of the Soviet Union, and soon they came up with the Truman Doctrine to contain and deter the Soviet Union.

However, in 2005, the Russian President Vladimir Putin called the collapse of the Soviet Union as “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.” President Putin was right, since the collapse of the Soviet Union was the result of the continued set of conspiracies of the West and resulted in the unrest in the international structure.

The Current International Structure

The basic reason for writing this article is to understand the current status of the international structure. In the contemporary world, the US and its allies seem ever busy in endorsing the sole leadership of the US, almost globally. However, the US is not now and has never been the sole superpower, and there is no such thing called as uni-polarity.

In reality, the current international structure is based on multipolarity, where Russia and China are formidable poles and continue to present open options to the peoples of the free........

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