In the late 1980s, the Soviet Union grew weak and subsequently broke apart. That experience should serve as a good lesson for us, because it has shown us that the paralysis of power and will is the first step towards complete degradation and oblivion.
Putin reflects on the collapse of the Soviet Union as a lesson for current governance.
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