{"id":281993,"date":"2016-09-23T14:40:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T18:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=281993"},"modified":"2020-11-03T14:44:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T19:44:32","slug":"putin-ussr-could-have-been-reformed-there-was-no-need-to-destroy-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/hi\/putin-ussr-could-have-been-reformed-there-was-no-need-to-destroy-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin: USSR could have been reformed, there was no need to destroy it"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT:<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080\"><strong>One more time he is 100% right.<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Communist Party of the Soviet Union should have transformed the bloc into a democratic entity rather than see it collapse, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know my attitude towards the collapse of the Soviet Union. There was no need to do it. Reforms could have been undertaken, including those of democratic nature,\u201d\u00a0the Russian president told the leaders of the parties which won seats in last week&#8217;s general election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I want to point out that the Communist Party was in charge of our former homeland, the USSR, not any other,\u201d\u00a0Putin added.<\/p>\n<p>The Communist Party of Russia, which evolved from its Soviet predecessor, is among the political forces represented in Russia&#8217;s new parliament. The party\u2019s leader, Gennady Zyuganov, complained to the president that the Communists had suffered from increased and unfair competition during the campaigning, resulting in them gaining a smaller share of seats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe political system that has 77 parties and 14 running for the parliament prevents normal dialogue, which is bad, in my opinion,\u201d\u00a0he said.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2005, President Vladimir Putin called the USSR\u2019s collapse \u201cthe major geopolitical disaster of the [last] century\u201d in a public address to the Russian parliament. This quote was circulated by the international mass media that claimed that it revealed the Kremlin\u2019s alleged plans to return to socialism. However, the Russian leader has repeatedly rejected these allegations, explaining that he meant the negative effect of radical and quick changes on the lives of everyday people.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, Putin was interviewed for a documentary and directly stated that Russia had no plans to bring back the USSR, but complained that no one wanted to believe in this. He went on to accuse European governments of confusing modern Russia with its Communist-run predecessor and of sacrificing the interests of common people in post-Soviet republics like Ukraine for the sake of preventing an imaginary threat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/360398-putin-ussr-collapse-reform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/360398-putin-ussr-collapse-reform\/<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: One more time he is 100% right. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":281994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-281993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/281994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}