Putin’s mad push to revive Soviet Union - as his aide says USSR 'never broke up'

Soviet nostalgia is widespread in Russia. The considerations of a Kremlin consultant go one step further. They may have to do with Russia's claim to Ukraine.

Putin’s mad push to revive Soviet Union - as his aide says USSR 'never broke up'

THE SOVIET Union was a brutal regime fronted by dangerous, power-hungry madmen who ruled with a vice-like grip. Sound familiar? Vladimir Putin has never been coy about his Soviet nostalgia – but in recent years has progressed from distant longing to enforcing a full-blown USSR revival programme AlamyPutin to preside over the power wielded by the Soviet Union in the 20th century[/caption] A huge Soviet flag was unfurled by a group of young cadets…

The trend goes beyond bright training suits and retrobars. Moscow leads a political debate on the restoration of the USSR. But it is not about communism.

Jarmila Kaplanová (married Halbrštátová) spent her childhood with her grandmother in Hylváty near Ústí nad Orlicí, where there were more Germans than Czechs. For this reason, Jarmila went to a German school. Her parents left for the Soviet Union to work, and in 1936 her mother came to get twelve-year-old Jarmila. The whole family then lived for another five years in the Rostov region in southwestern Russia, in the town of Šachty. "When my mother…