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Today on the 5th of May 2009 the US president signed a new trade deal with the premier of the USSR, Nikolai Makarov, to promote a 'new era of peace and understanding', harking back to previous detente periods. With the Soviet economy doing quite well and liberalization programmes proving successful, some see this as a thawing of relations and a new era of detente. Some, however, accuse the president of 'collaborating with a totalitarian state' that is 'trying to pull the wool over our eyes'. What is your opinion?
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