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The President of the Russian Federation and the presidential administration see the Soviet period as an important part of Russian history. But Dmitry Peskov, the press secretary of the head of state, said that the Kremlin will not celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the USSR, RIA Novosti reported.
“We’re not going to celebrate. [Советские времена] It is an important, inseparable part of Russian history,” he said.
Peskov also tried to quote Vladimir Putin about the Soviet Union.
“Only a person without a heart can regret the collapse of the Soviet Union, and only a person without a brain – I’m afraid to make a mistake in the accuracy of the quote – can seek its re-establishment,” said the presidential spokesman.
It is noteworthy that at the moment he is in the Kremlin itself. passes Exhibition “To the 100th Anniversary of the Formation of the USSR: Chicherin and Soviet Diplomacy” organized by the Moscow Kremlin Museums. It is dedicated to Georgy Chicherin, the first People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the Soviet country.
On December 30, 1922, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was established. On December 26, 1991, the Council of Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopted a declaration on the end of the existence of the USSR in connection with the formation of the CIS.
Zyuganov about salvation
Gennady Zyuganov, chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, said that the creation of the USSR saved the Russian state “after the tsarist era”.
“Through Leninist-Stalinist modernization and the Great October Revolution, the Soviet country liberated the Russian state. This is the main achievement we should be proud of, because World War II The mediocre tsarist government of Nicholas I, for the money of London, Paris and New York, dragged us into the First World War and burned the Russian Empire, ”the statement said. Russian Federation.
He added that Russia “cannot cope without justice and socialism” and urged to follow the example of China.
“If we rely on the best of what happened during the Soviet era and take with us the best of what has been created in recent years, we will survive. Here’s how the Chinese showed how it’s done. For the first 30 years, the Soviet country had an average (economic growth) rate of 14% per year, while the Chinese had 10% per year for the same 30 years,” said Zyuganov.
general date
On December 6, the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, Dmitry Peskov, said that the history of unity of the republics of the former USSR will forever remain a common history.
“What we have in history, including a common history with the now independent states and the former Soviet Union republics, will forever remain our common history,” he said.
“We now have the present, the future in which we live, where political will has been dictated to create certain integration mechanisms, and this is very important,” said Putin’s spokesman.
Peskov made this statement in response to a question whether the Russian authorities had taken into account the date 31 years from the signing of the Belovezhskaya Agreements, which ensured the collapse of the USSR. Putin will attend the Eurasian Economic Union summit in Bishkek this week. However, the decision on the date was made by the Kyrgyzstan authorities.
About the heart and brain
The words of Vladimir Putin about the collapse of the USSR, which Peskov quotes today, were uttered by the President of the Russian Federation in 2005. He later stated that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a tragedy for millions of people.
“I think we just threw the baby out with the water – that’s the problem. Liberation from dictatorship was not supposed to be accompanied by the collapse of the state, Putin told German television.
It also pointed to the tragedy of the Russian people, who turned out to be the largest divided people in the world.
“Imagine that in a beautiful moment people wake up and find out that since that day they did not live in a common state, but found themselves outside the borders of the Russian Federation, although they always describe themselves as follows. part of the Russian people. These people are not five, not ten, not even a thousand, not a million. There are 25 million of them. Just think about that number!” exclaimed Putin.
Finally, in the same interview, he expressed the words of Russian President Peskov.
“You know, we say: Those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no hearts, and those who regret do not have a head. We do not regret, we just say the truth, and we know that we should look forward, not back,” said Putin.
It is worth noting that this expression is also attributed to other politicians. It was uttered by Oleksandr Moroz, leader of the Socialist Party of Ukraine, in 1994, according to the NEGA Agency. He allegedly said this during the election campaign.
According to Kievskiye Vedomosti, General Alexander Lebed said the same words in 1996. The first president of the Russian Federation, Boris Yeltsin, also said two months later (quoted by RIA Novosti): “We could not help but remember the words of one of our colleagues: “He who does not regret the collapse of the state has no heart. USSR. He has no head dreaming of returning his literary copy.
Finally, in 2000, Vladimir Putin said the same sentence in an interview with RTR-Vesti. It was sung by the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev during the election campaign in the same year. In 2001, Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma said this. The same words were voiced by the former head of the Russian government, Viktor Chernomirdin.
Source: Gazeta
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