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I like how Putin clarified that Soviet Ukrainianization and indigenization of other areas of the USSR was not a bad policy in principle, makes it seem less anti-communist than his February 24, 2022 speech where he just says Lenin created Ukraine. This time he’s close to the Russian leftist view, that it was the nationalists that divided Russia and the Soviets reunited and stabilized the country.
He’s somewhat right about Lenin though, Lenin pushed very hard for Ukraine, way harder than for any other nation in Russia. His reasons were acceptable at the point, but it backfired hard after 1991.