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This video was posted at the YouTube channel Mark Felton Productions.
Many people born in the U.S. since 1991 might not know very much about the Soviet Union. Even if they briefly studied it in a high school history class, for them the USSR is now only an item of history.
What were the Soviets capable of doing? No one in the West knows exactly how many deaths for which Stalin is responsible; some might say 20 million, but Solzhenitsyn said that he killed 66 million people. Genocides by Communist leaders aren't a part of public discourse today, and so modern adults might think to themselves that this can't be true. But they haven't seen the Soviets in action, as reported by the news sources of the day.
There are very few advantages to being a senior citizen in the U.S., but one of them is that you have lived through at least part of the Cold War. Stalin died before my time, but I remember the invasion of what was Czechoslovakia in 1968 (this country was a Soviet satellite state back then). I also remember an event that took place on September 1, 1983. A Korean airliner made a navigation error, it strayed over Soviet airspace, and it was attacked with missiles by a Soviet fighter. If the mainstream theory of the result is correct, Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was shot down over the Sea of Japan, and all 269 people aboard the plane were killed.
- Putin has never expressed any regret for his career in the KGB.
- Putin has expressed the opinion that the fall of the Soviet Union was a catastrophe.
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