![]() Today he is dreaming of the Russian Empire that the Bolsheviks destroyed. As Yeltsin’s handpicked successor, Putin knows all this very well. Boris Yeltsin, the man who achieved this, accepted the borders of the Soviet Russian republic as Russia’s. ![]() The whole point was to liberate Russia from what was then understood to be the burden of supporting the periphery. that brought about the end of the Soviet Union. Putin writes that when the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the principle for deciding the borders of its constituent republics should have been: “Take what you brought with you.” In history as it actually happened, however, it was the Russian republic of the U.S.S.R. Russian propaganda depends upon myths and counterfactuals, all spun in the direction of Russian greatness and innocence. ![]()
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