Vladimir Putin is taking Russia back to the USSR
After Vladimir Putin succeeded Boris Yeltsin as president of Russia in 2000, one of the first things he did was rewrite the country’s post-Soviet Union national anthem – a wordless dirge that had been chosen in 1990, and which left the country’s athletes standing mute on the podium when they won an Olympic gold medal.
A better interpretation would have been that Mr. Putin was foreshadowing where he intended to take Russia – a destination that today could be described, in the words of some other famous songwriters, as Back in the U.S.S.R. To call the referendums a sham is an insult to shams. The Kremlin-controlled authorities in the “Donetsk People’s Republic” are reporting thatopted for Russian annexation – which is the kind of result you get when you determine the count before the votes are counted, and when voters are politely requested to fill out a ballot by soldiers holding guns. People would have agreed to hitchhike to Mars if that had been the Kremlin’s desired outcome.
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