Putin's "Catastrophe"

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin told the nation Monday that the collapse of the Soviet empire “was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century” and had fostered separatist movements inside Russia.

“First and foremost it is worth acknowledging that the demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,” Putin said.

I’m sure the Poles, Czechs, and residents of the Baltic states don’t see it that way.