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MOSCOW President Vladimir Putin has lamented the collapse of the Soviet Union three decades ago as the demise of what he called "historical Russia" and said the economic crisis that followed was so bad he was forced to moonlight as a taxi driver.
Putin's comments, released by state TV on Sunday, are likely to further fuel speculation about his foreign policy intentions among critics, who accuse him of planning to recreate the Soviet Union and of contemplating an attack on Ukraine, a notion the Kremlin has dismissed as fear-mongering.
"It was a disintegration of historical Russia under the name of the Soviet Union," Putin said of the 1991 breakup, in comments aired on Sunday as part of a documentary film called "Russia. New History," the RIA state news agency reported.
"We turned into a completely different country. And what had been built up over 1,000 years was largely lost," said Putin, saying 25 million Russian people in newly independent countries suddenly found themselves cut off from Russia, part of what he called "a major humanitarian tragedy."
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MOMFUDSKI
(5,657 posts)white male grievance. Kiss my ass.
orangecrush
(19,620 posts)dweller
(23,662 posts)✌🏻
WhiskeyGrinder
(22,438 posts)Or was, anyway, back then.
Sneederbunk
(14,303 posts)orangecrush
(19,620 posts)uponit7771
(90,364 posts)orangecrush
(19,620 posts)hedda_foil
(16,375 posts)Much of it belonged to Poland and the Austro-Hungarian Empire before WWII. And before that, the countries were traded back and forth. Sometimes Russia had most of it, sometimes not.
PortTack
(32,794 posts)Tragedy of the 20th century. Pretty much tells one whats inside that mind
TheBlackAdder
(28,214 posts).
Da, first year I make 100 Million ruble as a taxi driver.
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Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)They didn't like it.
To hell with Putin.
orangecrush
(19,620 posts)dalton99a
(81,590 posts)orangecrush
(19,620 posts)Reagan + Jodie Foster + Putin + Taxis =
dalton99a
(81,590 posts)orangecrush
(19,620 posts)maxsolomon
(33,400 posts)It was the Soviet Union that made them separate Republics, no? Revanchism is a useful political tool.
I don't see him invading any of the Central Asian Republics. Just Ukraine, where they don't want to be colonized by Russia.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)he had a legitimate job. Now he just steals from everyone, pure criminal.
orangecrush
(19,620 posts)LowerManhattanite
(2,390 posts)cabdriver hacks YOU.