[Tailgunner Joe]

"Within the European political school of thought there is an established position of pacifying all terrorist: as long as they don’t bother us. Take for instance, Chamberlain and Daladier, which at some point brought to their countries pieces of paper of with agreement with Hitler, and announced to their compatriots: “We have brought peace!” The World War started in the year. After that Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact was not the best solution but the necessary one in those conditions…” - Vladimir Putin

[RightWhale]

He is correct. There was a power vacuum in the region. Russia is still not capable of reasserting hegemony over their former sphere, which is why the US is in there. When Russia recovers, things will quiet down. Whenever that comes, which it appears the Millenium will arrive first.

[gondramB]

Yes, a totalitarian socialist state with no freedom of speech, religion, association or movement probably does cut down on opportunities for terrorism... How odd that people have to be tricked into it with unfulfillable promises... /sarcasm

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

"Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday his country's problem with terrorism is rooted in the breakup of the Soviet Union."

He just NOW figured this out???

[Rennes Templar]

All socialists/Marxists believe Russia was much more stable with communism, just as Iraq was much more stable under Saddam. Freedom is so inconvenient.

[GOP_1900AD]

Ergo, USSR2 (or make it, 2+ .... the SCO and all that ...).

[Thunder90]

More proof that Putin wants the USSR back!

[dr_who_2]

True. Everything was just lovely before the breakup. Back in the good old days, the communists spread terror around the the old C.C.C.P and the rest of the world equally.

[GeronL]

So Putin wants to put the USSR back together??

[familyop]

...related.

Russia says new Topol RS-12 mobile ICBM can evade U.S. missile defense
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1513904/posts
(November 2, 2005)

[stockpirate]

If you buy Mr. Putin's dribble you should go and post on DU.

[Just mythoughts]

Some days it appears as though Putin thinks he can use terrorists lands and the live warm bodies to reconstitute the USSR.

[dfwgator]

There was little terrorism in Nazi Germany as well (except the state-sponsored kind, of course).

[lizol]

And didn't you know, that "fall of the Soviet Union was the greatest geo-political disaster of the century"?

According to Putin, of course

[sergey1973]

When Putin claims that USSR breakup causes terror, he leaves out one simple fact--the Soviet regime itself practiced terror against its own citizens.

Certainly the power vacuum created by the breakup of USSR in some regions gave the opportunity to unsavory folks to pursue their own agenda by terror means, but it doesn't change the terror nature of the Soviet Regime under Stalin.
After Stalin, Soviet Regime softened, but it continued to pursue avanturistic policies abroad, including financing of Communist thugs and regimes around the world which was one of the key factors in the USSR breakup apart from the Arms Race.

So Putin has a selective memory which given his ex-KGB background and beliefs is not surprising.