The Pit of Penultimate Darkness

Apparently someone has opened a pit slightly darker than this one.

Wednesday, April 27, 2005

Putin calls Soviet Union's breakup "the greatest political catastrophe of the last century".

MOSCOW - The collapse of the Soviet Union was "the greatest political catastrophe of the last century," Russian president Vladimir Putin said Monday as he delivered his annual state of the nation address.

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers his annual state of the nation address in Moscow.

The former KGB agent said the 1991 breakup of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was a "true drama" that left tens of millions of Russian people living outside Russia, in breakaway republics formerly under Soviet control.

"The epidemic of destruction extended even to Russia itself," he told the country's two houses of parliament, saying personal savings were wiped out and "old ideals" were destroyed.

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Funny, I would have said the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 or the takeover of Germany by the National Socialists in 1933. The collapse od the USSR was a necessary step forward, all be it a painful one.

posted by Tom at 9:05 PM

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