The Ukrainian Catholic Bishop for Britain said this week that Vladimir Putin’s interest in Ukraine stems from his desire to bring back the Soviet Union.
“Why is Mr. Putin so interested in Ukraine? Well, he has said that the greatest tragedy of this past century is the collapse of the Soviet Union,” Bishop Kenneth Nowakowski told the website of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales.
Bishop Nowakowski observed that many may find Putin’s assertion odd, since when considering the greatest tragedies of the past century we may point to the First and Second World Wars, the Holocaust, Stalin’s Holodomor starvation genocide in Ukraine, or even the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986.
“So if we have a person in charge of the Russian Federation who feels that the greatest tragedy in the past century was the collapse of the Soviet Union, it’s no wonder that…