Any More Stalinists Out There Who Think Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine Should Be Part of Russia? Maybe You Want to Re-Partition Poland Again?

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When Vladimir Putin described the breakup of the Soviet Union as the greatest catastrophe of the 20th Century, that's what he is talking about. That Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine threw off their communist shackles and become free independent nations for the first time since the pre-World War II era.

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QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

Putin did not describe the breakup of the Soviet Union as the greatest catastrophe of the 20th century - and no, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania is not what he's talking about either. That part of things actually went quite smoothly.

Ukraine, perhaps - as Crimea was definitely part of the "drama" that he was referring to, and should have been resolved in the 90s.

beckyromero · 36-40, FVIP

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Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century.

- Vladimir Putin

The link is the Kremlin's OFFICIAL website.

http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/transcripts/22931

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@beckyromero A bit different than "greatest catastrophe of the 20th century" hmm?

beckyromero · 36-40, FVIP

@QuixoticSoul

Not really.

"Disaster" and "catastrophe" are synonyms.

QuixoticSoul · 41-45, M

@beckyromero It's the "greatest" vs "major" and the missing "geopolitical" that's the problem in the translation - not the catastrophe/disaster conflation.

And no, he's not talking about the Baltics - but everything else that happened - and most importantly, how.

beckyromero · 36-40, FVIP

@QuixoticSoul

"geopolitical"

Well, it's not like we're talking natural disasters.