Putin: Soviet Union Had Fewer Dark Days Than The U.S.

"THE history of the Soviet Union had fewer black pages in its history than certain other countries, not least the United States, President Vladimir Putin has said in a speech.

"Regarding the problematic pages in our history, yes, we do have them, as does any state,'' Putin said at a social sciences conference, citing Stalin's purges during the 1930s.

"But other countries have also known their bleak and terrible moments,'' he said in comments published on the official Kremlin website.

"In any event, we never used nuclear weapons against civilians, and we never dumped chemicals on thousands of kilometres of land or dropped more bombs on a tiny country than were dropped during the entire Second World War, as was the case in Vietnam,'' he said."

Part of the reason for the fall of the Soviet Union was the inability to stand toe to toe with a powerful foe. Leaving aside, but of course, the fact that communism can never work on anything resembling a large scale. The day Nikita Khrushchev blinked was the day the USSR was doomed.

But good Lord; the Russian and Soviet purges that killed millions of their own people visits ample testimony to the abject nonsense of Vlad's ludicrous statement. The UN and NATO and SEATO, and every last modern treaty known to mankind had in mind the defense of the world against the clumsy but powerful Soviet menace.