Putin: We don’t want USSR back but no one believes us

Russia is not trying to bring back the USSR, President Vladimir Putin said in a documentary that aired Sunday, but the problem is that “nobody wants to believe it.”

 

Since the beginning of the Ukraine crisis, which saw pro-Russian leader Viktor Yanukovych ousted by pro-European demonstrators, Moscow has accused the West of using “the politics of containment” in a Cold War throwback.

 

“With Ukraine and other areas of the former USSR, I’m sure our Western partners aren’t working in the interests of Ukraine — they are working to prevent the re-creation of the USSR,” he said in “World Order,” a documentary broadcast on the public Rossiya 1 channel.

 

“But nobody wants to believe us — nobody wants to believe that we’re not trying to bring the Soviet Union back,” he said.

 

The president also used the documentary to take a familiar swipe at Western intervention in North Africa and the Middle East.

 

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