Vladimir Putin could not have openly lamented the demise of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, before his accession to power, former US ambassador Michael McFaul claimed – only to be instantly served an example to the contrary.
The factually inaccurate claims came as McFaul challenged his Twitter audience on Monday to provide evidence of a younger Putin going against the Russian political system under President Boris Yeltsin. “Post for me that Putin speech in 1992 when he lamented the collapse of the USSR,” he asked, before confidently asserting that one didn’t exist, followed by the hashtag #FactsMatter.
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