Russian President Vladimir Putin said the United States was wrong to think that it is “powerful enough” to get away with threatening other countries, a mistake, he said, that led to the downfall of the former Soviet Union.
Reuters: Putin says US threats smack of Soviet Union’s fatal mistakes
A red flag is seen above a bust of the Soviet state founder and revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov aka Lenin as Russian Communist party members and supporters attend a flower-laying ceremony marking the 149th anniversary of his birth, on Red Square in Moscow, April 22, 2019.
