Russia: Vladimir Putin blames Lenin for Soviet Union failure

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has blamed Vladimir Lenin for the dissolution of the Soviet Union, accusing the former communist leader of planting a “time bomb” under the state. The 63-year-old leader was responding to a question at an inter-party forum about the legacy of Lenin and the Communist Revolution of 1917.

 

Putin was critical of Lenin’s arbitrary drawing of borders within the old USSR and his establishment of a federal state in which the constituent territories had the right to secede. “That right [to secession] was the time bomb planted under our statehood. This is what caused the country’s.

 

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