Some interesting tidbits from the leader of the world's largest country:
The collapse of the Soviet Union was "the greatest political catastrophe of the last century," Russian president Vladimir Putin said...I'll agree 100% with that statement if he changes the word "collapse" to "creation".
...the 1991 breakup of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics... left tens of millions of Russian people living outside Russia...Oh yeah? And the 1917 setup of said "union" left millions of non-Russians without a country of their own.
...personal savings were wiped out...Lemme get this straight. "Personal savings" were wiped out with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Hmm. And this whole time I thought the Socialist Worker's Paradiseâ„¢ left all of its citizens without any money anyway.
...and "old ideals" were destroyed.I wish that were true. Unfortunately a billion Chinese are still slaves to those ideals.
Putin has come in for international criticism recently over what some see as a rollback in press and judicial freedom, as well as democratic rights.Well, after comments like these, I'd say those criticisms are justified. Can you imagine the Chancellor (or whatever he's called) of Germany saying that things in his country were great until they lost that pesky war?
"Man, I sure do pine for the good ol' days of 1940! Germany had it together then, I tells ya!"
Um, nope.
Well, the colors of the Russian flag are the same as ours, the British, and (eep) the French- red, white, and blue. Obviously Putin's colors are red with a yellow hammer and sickle.
Hat tip: Fark- your source for on-point news.
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