The modern generation of people of all nationalities is paying the price for the weakness of the central government during the 1917 revolution and the collapse of the USSR, says Russian President Vladimir Putin. He made this statement during the plenary session of the World Russian People’s Council (VRNS), speaking via video link, RBC reports.
The President called for remembering the lessons of the 1917 revolution and the subsequent civil war, as well as the collapse of the USSR in 1991.
“It would seem that so many years have passed, but people of all nationalities living now, even those born in the 21st century, are still, even decades later, paying for the miscalculations made then, for indulging in separatist illusions and ambitions, for the weakness of the central government, for the policies artificial, violent division of the great Russian nation, the triune people – Russians, Belarusians and Ukrainians,” said the head of state.
According to him, the “bloody hotbeds” that arose after the collapse of the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union still continue to “smolder” and sometimes “flare up with renewed vigor.” “And these wounds will not heal for a long time,” the Russian leader believes.
Russia will not forget these mistakes and should not repeat them, Putin expressed his opinion. “I want to emphasize again: any attempts to sow interethnic and interreligious discord, to split our society is a betrayal, a crime against all of Russia. We won’t let anyone [ее] share,” he concluded.
Source: Rosbalt
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