[Thunder90]

Putin went overboard in the last year praising communism and stalinism and what not. After the 60th Anniversary of the Great Patriotic War, where Hammer and Sickle flags were on display, Putin needed something to take the "Putin is a Communist dictator" heat off of him.

[jb6]

No, what Putin said was the collapse of the Soviet Union was a tragedy (that is the nation as borders not the soviet system). If you bother to read the rest of the speech, or even the rest of the paragraph that is obvious. But if you choose to limit yourself to the "honesty" of the MSM and let it lead you by the nose with it's unique ability to take one line out of a two page speech, well then it says a lot.