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KGB Putin thinks the COLLAPSE of the Soviet communist empire was the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe' of the 20th century

"the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the [20th] century" -Russian leader Vladimir Putin on the collapse of the Soviet Union...
"World democratic opinion has yet to realize the alarming implications of President Vladimir Putin's State of the Union speech on April 25, 2005, in which he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union represented the 'greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.'
http://www.hoover.org/research/putins-russia-stalin-lite
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"'The Black Book of Communism,'; a scholarly accounting of communism’s crimes, counts about 94 million murdered by the supposed champions of the common man (20 million for the Soviets alone), and some say that number is too low."

Forgetting the Evils of Communism: The amnesia bites a little deeper
By Jonah Goldberg, August 2008:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmY0MjI1MDgyYjg1M2UwNDMzMTk2Mjk5YTk0ZTdlMWE=

[annalex]

KGB Putin thinks...

Yes. A considerable faction there, I am convinced, would think that (1) a military revanche with the Soviet Union rebuilt, perhaps with some ideological corrections here and there, -- is a desirable goal and even a duty; and (2) that the historic opportunity with a near idiot as a Commander in Chief, the military overextended in countries of little strategic importance, growing national debt, rising ISIS, and the population preoccupied with fine-tuning homosexual relations of its citizenry, -- may never repeat itself in their lifetimes.

That is not the only faction, but the issue is not their numbers but access to power.