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by Tom DeignanThe author of “Irish Americans: Coming to America,” Tom writes for the Irish Voice, Irish America magazine and the Newark Star-Ledger.
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Saturday, October 09, 2010 at 11:11 AM
When you think of Russian spies you don’t necessarily think of twentysomething girls in bikinis -- or for that matter Irish immigrants.
But these days, when it seems as if the Cold War is back with a vengeance, that’s what you get when you hear about Russian spy scandals.
Perhaps this craze for the Cold War is just nostalgia, a longing for the days when the Soviets and Americans would engage in all sorts of skullduggery, but in the end, no one would get hurt. These days, in the back of our minds, we seem to know that any day can turn out to be as tragic as that one back in September of 2001.
