Vladimir Poutine

"Above all, we should acknowledge that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a major geopolitical disaster of the century." - Vladimir Putin April 25, 2005
What are we to make of a Russian President who makes such a proclamation? If a German Chancellor declared that the fall of the Third Reich was a major geopolitical disaster of the century well you could imagine the uproar. Comrade Putin has it all wrong. The creation of the Soviet Union was THE GREATEST disaster of the 20th century. The Bolsheviks signed the terrible little treaty of Brest-Litovsk. The Russian Civil War and the long list of mass killings by Lenin and Stalin were a result of the Russian Revolution and the creation of the USSR. There would not been any Gulags, purges and mass famines across what Reagen rightly termed the Evil Empire. Russia's role in the cause of the Second World War has shamefully been ignored; the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact made Hitler's attack on Poland possible. The myth of The Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 ignores the Red Armies invasion of Poland in 1939, the Winter War, and the Soviet expansion into the Baltic states. Stalin's gross negligence and incompetence which permitted the Nazis to inflict massive and unnecessary losses on the Russian people in the spring/summer of 1941 is hushed up. Stalin fought the war with such ruthlessness, and with such a lack of skill that a butcher like Sir Douglas Haig (of the Somme and Passchendaele horrors of the First War) looks like a military genius who took minimal losses. The Russian people should not only be aware of the horrors inflicted on them by the Nazis but also those committed by their vicious and unskilled master in the Kremlin.The Russian people should be proud of how they fought and defeated the bulk of the Nazi war machine; they should also know how badly they were led. How the mighty Red Army took excessive losses and was permitted to fall into an orgy of rape,looting and murder during the march into Germany in 1945. The heroic front-line fighters were betrayed by their leadership.The Soviets post war sins should not be forgotten as well. Mao, Pol Pot, and the North Korea and Viet Nam
are all the murderous prodigy of the Russian Revolution and the USSR . Now Putin and the Chinese are moving the world towards a new Cold War with old client states like North Korea, Iran and Sudan in tow. Fellow travellers like Hugo Chavez are enabling this. While the useful idiots in the world media keep the world distracted on a host of other things. Putin has learned the wrong history and is determined to have us relive this misreading of history.