His view was questioned by Marlene Laruelle, Research Professor at The George Washington University: Contrary to [Snyder's] claims, the Kremlin does not live in an ideological world inspired by Nazi Germany, but in one in which the Yalta decades, the Gorbachev-Yeltsin years, and the collapse of the Soviet Union still constitute the main historical referents and traumas. Laruelle accused Snyder of "distortions, inaccuracies, and selective interpretations."