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Putin Denies Ambitions to Recreate Soviet Union
(MENAFN) Russian President Vladimir Putin has no intention of reinstating the Soviet Union, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov stated on Tuesday.
Peskov emphasized that Putin has consistently expressed this stance personally, reiterating the president’s perspective in response to assertions regarding Russian objectives made by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz during a recent interview with a news agency.
Considering the restoration of the USSR, Peskov explained, “would be disrespectful to our partners and allies in the Commonwealth of Independent States and other more advanced integrational forms,” referring to a coalition of post-Soviet countries.
The Russian official also labeled Merz’s suggestion that Moscow is preparing an attack on NATO as “absolute nonsense.”
Lawmakers from European nations within the US-led military alliance have cited this claim to justify the EU’s multibillion-euro rearmament initiatives.
Russian authorities argue that such fearmongering diverts attention from domestic issues while channeling public funds toward arms manufacturing, benefiting defense contractors.
Western analysts have long suggested that Putin harbors nostalgia for the USSR, pointing to his description of its collapse as the “greatest geopolitical disaster” of the 20th century.
The Russian president has repeatedly expressed concern about the separation of ethnic Russians by new national borders and other negative outcomes from the Soviet dissolution. Yet, he has made it clear that those seeking a Soviet revival “have no head.”
Peskov emphasized that Putin has consistently expressed this stance personally, reiterating the president’s perspective in response to assertions regarding Russian objectives made by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz during a recent interview with a news agency.
Considering the restoration of the USSR, Peskov explained, “would be disrespectful to our partners and allies in the Commonwealth of Independent States and other more advanced integrational forms,” referring to a coalition of post-Soviet countries.
The Russian official also labeled Merz’s suggestion that Moscow is preparing an attack on NATO as “absolute nonsense.”
Lawmakers from European nations within the US-led military alliance have cited this claim to justify the EU’s multibillion-euro rearmament initiatives.
Russian authorities argue that such fearmongering diverts attention from domestic issues while channeling public funds toward arms manufacturing, benefiting defense contractors.
Western analysts have long suggested that Putin harbors nostalgia for the USSR, pointing to his description of its collapse as the “greatest geopolitical disaster” of the 20th century.
The Russian president has repeatedly expressed concern about the separation of ethnic Russians by new national borders and other negative outcomes from the Soviet dissolution. Yet, he has made it clear that those seeking a Soviet revival “have no head.”
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