{"id":1114646,"date":"2021-12-13T13:29:10","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T18:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1114646"},"modified":"2021-12-13T13:29:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T18:29:14","slug":"vladimir-putin-calls-soviet-collapse-a-tragedy-violation-of-russian-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vladimir-putin-calls-soviet-collapse-a-tragedy-violation-of-russian-sovereignty\/","title":{"rendered":"Vladimir Putin Calls Soviet Collapse a &#039;Tragedy,&#039; Violation of Russian &#039;Sovereignty&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvladimir-putin-calls-soviet-collapse-a-tragedy-violation-of-russian-sovereignty%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1114646&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\"><span>In an interview on Russian state media Sunday, Vladimir Putin waxed nostalgic for the Soviet empire, describing the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 as the death of \u201chistorical Russia.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Putin has expressed such sentiments before, but his latest lament was troubling in light of the Russian military buildup along the Ukrainian border.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Putin discussed the matter for a state television documentary called <em>Russia: Its Recent History.<\/em>&nbsp;As transcribed by the state-run <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/1374357\"><span>Tass<\/span><\/a><span> news service, the Russian president mourned the fall of the Soviet Union as a blow to Russia\u2019s \u201csovereignty,\u201d which implies Russia has the right to recapture freed Soviet possessions like Ukraine:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"29\">\n<p><span>\u201cThere were very many instruments [of pressure], Russia was quite weak, it depended on various sorts of financial instruments and mechanisms, political and internal,\u201d [Putin] said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIn this sense, it can be stated with regret that back then Russia lost a larger part of its sovereignty,\u201d he noted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAs for sovereignty, I saw it when I was prime minister in 1999, when following the beginning of our active combat operations in the North Caucasus an IMF mission demanded we stop them,\u201d the president recalled. \u201cWhen I asked what the IMF, the International Monetary Fund, had to do with that, they told me that they thought it would impact the economy adversely. We argued that we were strengthening our statehood and, hence, a possibility for more efficient work in the economic sphere, but our arguments were ignored.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Putin accused the IMF of hastening the Soviet Union\u2019s collapse by denying its request for a reasonable \u201cinstallment payment plan\u201d for its debts and concluded the resulting collapse of the USSR was a \u201ctragedy for the vast majority of the country\u2019s citizens.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cWhat\u2019s the disintegration within the USSR? That\u2019s the collapse of historical Russia called the Soviet Union,\u201d he <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/tass.com\/politics\/1374355\"><span>said<\/span><\/a><span>. \u201cWe turned into a completely different country, and what had been built up over a thousand years was largely lost.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_19112930\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"36\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237088873.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19112930\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237088873-1024x646-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"625\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A woman walks past a huge state emblem of the USSR which was removed from an avenue after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, in a modern history sculpture park in Moscow on December 8, 2021. (ALEXANDER NEMENOV\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>Most disturbingly given Russia\u2019s mounting aggression toward Ukraine, Putin <a href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/russias-president-vladimir-putin-reveals-he-had-to-moonlight-as-a-taxi-driver-after-the-collapse-of-the-soviet-union-12494631\">claimed<\/a> the \u201chumanitarian tragedy\u201d of the USSR\u2019s collapse was especially severe for people in the newly independent Soviet republics. The people of Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/place\/Ukraine\/Independent-Ukraine\">voted<\/a> in a landslide to become independent from the Soviet Union in December 1991.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Putin has previously <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rferl.org\/a\/putin-historical-russia-soviet-breakup-ukraine\/31606186.html\"><span>described<\/span><\/a><span> the fall of the Soviet empire as \u201cthe greatest geopolitical disaster of the 20th Century.\u201d He arguably began the process of forcibly reversing it by annexing Crimea in 2014, and might now be on the verge of recapturing some or all of Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Ukrainian troops are on high alert as Russia masses about 100,000 troops on the far side of the contested Donbass region, where a pro-Russian separatist insurgency has been fighting the Ukrainian government for over seven years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last week, Putin ominously <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-59599066\"><span>referred<\/span><\/a><span> to Ukraine\u2019s battle against the separatists as \u201cgenocide.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19112954\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236410767.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19112954\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1236410767-1024x683-1.jpg\" alt width=\"990\" height=\"660\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Russian Communist party activists and supporters carry portraits of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin (R) and Soviet dictator Josef Stalin (L) as they attend a flowers-laying ceremony at the Lenin\u2019s Mausoleum on Red Square in downtown Moscow on November 7, 2021, marking the 104th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution also known as the October Revolution. (DIMITAR DILKOFF\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>A Ukrainian military officer told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/world\/ukraines-troops-high-alert-russian-forces-amass-border-rcna8328\"><span>NBC News<\/span><\/a><span> on Monday \u201cthe enemy is constantly provoking us here,\u201d seeking to create an incident that would give Russia a pretext to invade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIf there is provocation towards us, we don\u2019t respond to the provocation. If there is a targeted shooting and there is a threat to our lives, then we respond,\u201d the Ukrainian soldier said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cPutin, I think, will not stop in Ukraine. If we don\u2019t stop it here, they go further, because history shows us that leaders like Putin don\u2019t stop until the whole world stops it,\u201d another Ukrainian officer warned.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview on Russian state media Sunday, Vladimir Putin waxed nostalgic for the Soviet empire, describing the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 as the death of \u201chistorical &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1114646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114646"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114646\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}