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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Don't know- didn't Putin hate what he did for the USSR?
He calls the break up one of the biggest catastrophes ever and Ukraine is part of reversing that."
He’s not getting a state funeral its been announced.
On a personal level I don’t know if Putin has any personal feeling towards it.Remember that he was with the Russians when they threw the soviets out.
As for his comments about breakup being a catastrophe he is referring to the idea that took hold in Russia of the USSR being a great Russian Empire.He has no plans to actively resurrect it.
Also the westerners fawning over it makes good political propaganda especially when you are rolling out massive censorship campaigns.
Ukraine is seen as part of this Russian Empire and part of its ultimate destiny.
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By *ovebjsMan
over a year ago
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"Putin always puts the blame for any problems on someone else so don’t expect Gorbachev to be treated with any honour or respect….it’s a bit like Brexiteers and the EU  "
Yea strange that yet another opponent of Putins war has just taken a dive out of a hospital window 
And just to point out most of the moaning seems to be from the remainers on here  |
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"Putin always puts the blame for any problems on someone else so don’t expect Gorbachev to be treated with any honour or respect….it’s a bit like Brexiteers and the EU
Yea strange that yet another opponent of Putins war has just taken a dive out of a hospital window
And just to point out most of the moaning seems to be from the remainers on here "
Putin assassinates his opponents. Standard practice for an autocrat.
I personally see no connection between those who voted stay and critics of Putin. I am however begining to wonder if Brexiteers secretly like Putin's way of doing things. |
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Gorbachev wasn't very popular with a lot of people in Russia and other soviet countries the end of the soviet union left them worse off and they werent exactly well off under soviet control . The you tube channel Bald and broke visited Gorbachev's home town and he was vert unpopular with many residents .
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"Gorbachev wasn't very popular with a lot of people in Russia and other soviet countries the end of the soviet union left them worse off and they werent exactly well off under soviet control . The you tube channel Bald and broke visited Gorbachev's home town and he was vert unpopular with many residents .
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What made you look at that channel  |
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By *rFunBoyMan
over a year ago
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"Putin always puts the blame for any problems on someone else so don’t expect Gorbachev to be treated with any honour or respect….it’s a bit like Brexiteers and the EU
Yea strange that yet another opponent of Putins war has just taken a dive out of a hospital window
And just to point out most of the moaning seems to be from the remainers on here "
Hospital jumpers in Russia, apartment jumpers abroad does seem to be an issue with Russia.
Sometimes wonder is, rather than Championing "our winning if the cold war" and rubbing some very stingy salt in big painful wounds that that West should have embraced Russia more to make their sacrifices worthwhile.
It's a lot like making friends with the kid in the playground you can't stand, just to get your hands on his endless supply of sweets and chocolate but tell him to get lost when he wants to play.
Did we isolate Putin instead of making him feel that what happened in 1991 was actually a good thing?
Thatcher started the terminology we won. We won nothing, we had a chance of lasting peace but blew it?
I am not condoning any aggressive or murderous behaviour, but have inadvertently pushed him this way? |
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