Western countries wanted to “completely collapse Russia,” but the Russian president in the “zero” years did not believe in this “out of naivety.” He himself stated this in an interview with VGTRK journalist Pavel Zarubin, speaking about his past in the “zero.”
“Definitely, there was naivety,” Putin noted, adding that despite the fact that he worked for 20 years in the security services, he still “had a naive idea that the negative reaction of Western politicians to Russia’s actions was connected with the habit of entering into confrontation with the USSR.”
“I had a naive idea that the whole world understands what happened to Russia, that it has become a different country, that there is no longer any ideological confrontation, which means there is no basis for confrontation. And if something negative is happening in the policies of Western countries towards Russia… In particular, support for separatism and terrorism on Russian territory was obvious, I, as director of the FSB, saw this,” Putin said.
He noted that “I naively believed that this was the inertia of thinking and action.” “They got used to fighting the Soviet Union and continue… This was a naive idea,” the president added. He emphasized that in fact, Western politicians after the collapse of the USSR wanted to “completely collapse Russia,” since no one needs such a large country with a large population.
Source: Rosbalt
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