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President Vladimir Putin justified backing the separatist regions in conflict with Ukraine Monday in a speech containing claims that former Russian leaders Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin wrongfully gave Ukraine the land.
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The reddit thread is hilarious and shows libs don't actually read even the first paragraph of articles.
Even that quote isn't really right. Putin has said that Stalin believed that the USSR should have been a single unitary state, and not a group of nominally independent republics bound together, but Lenin wanted to give each nationality their own country within the Union, with the right to freely secede. Putin has argued many times that Stalin was correct, that he should have won out over Lenin, and that the system of Republics was a deadly flaw at the heart of the Soviet state that lead directly to its collapse.
Putin also argued in this speech that there was no real Ukrainian nationality or state before Lenin gave them one, but that ignores that there had been over a hundred years of Ukrainian nationalism beforehand. Like a lot of Russian nationalists, Putin dislikes Lenin for being against Russian chauvinism, despite kind of proving him right.
