My spies know where you are." I would like to Country Email List ask you now about some questions related to the current situation in Russia and, in particular, about the way in which the Soviet process is thought of in contemporary politics. Vladimir Putin Country Email List usually defends some aspects of the ussr , but despises the October Revolution (to the point that its 10 0th anniversary was not celebrated in 2017 ). He seems to see the Revolution and Lenin as Country Email List generators of chaos and disintegration. Where would you place Putin ideologically and from your reading of Russian history?

Putin once defined himself as a "pure and Country Email List completely successful product of Soviet patriotic education." Even with the dose of irony in the expression, there is a lot of truth in it. Of course, it is evident that on Lenin he departed quite a bit from Country Email List what he was taught, but on Stalin he stayed on the same axis. In order to have a perspective of Putin's ideas about the Russian Revolution, it is indeed convenient to observe his opinions in the Country Email List debates in the face of the celebrations of the centenary of the Revolution – celebrations that ultimately did not take place.

In that context of 2017, Putin said that for sure Country Email List Lenin had done some good things, but that there were negative aspects that were very clearly remarkable for him. He defined him, plain and simple, as a destroyer of nations. In this context, he Country Email List launched his favorite criticism of Lenin, considering as one of his worst measures the granting of the right of secession to the republics of the ussr . Putin called it "a ticking time bomb." This is a Country Email List resource that, of course, none of the republics used for 70 years, until they finally did.