[Renfrew]

"came in the way of those who declared themselves the winners of the Cold War."

This is the key line. He doesn't believe the USSR really lost.

[cowboyusa]

No, the virus they created metastasized here.

[SamuraiScot]

"came in the way of those who declared themselves the winners of the Cold War."

This is the key line. He doesn't believe the USSR really lost.

Of course he does. If he didn't recognize that loss, even in his own terms, he wouldn't have anything to complain about. He's just doing the Hitler thing--which is to complain of injury, yet claim omnipotence.

He'd just another conniving, psychopathic narcissist in a long line of them. Isn't that what this adds up to?

[Repeal 16-17]

This is the key line. He doesn't believe the USSR really lost.

Just like Hitler didn't believe Germany really lost WWI, but instead was the victim of being "stabbed in the back." Tsar Vladimir believes the Soviet Union collapsed only because it lost its "will."