“25 million ethnic Russians suddenly found themselves outside the borders of their historical homeland against their will. The Russian people are the most numerous divided people in the world. We are still experiencing the consequences of this tragedy, ”he quoted him at the 13th European Russian Forum in the TASS European Parliament.
Chizhov also noted that the Russophobic propaganda and slander that began after the collapse of the USSR, the purpose of which is to review the role of the Russian people in history, continues to this day.
“The struggle for the Soviet geopolitical inheritance that followed the collapse of the USSR continues to this day, its main tools borrowed from the arsenal of the Cold War are Russophobic propaganda, slander of the Russian people, attempts to reconsider the role of the Russian people in world history,” he said.
Earlier, ex-president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev accused the organizers of the August putsch in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
In 2015, Russian leader Vladimir Putin called the collapse of the USSR a huge tragedy due to the fact that 25 million Russian people suddenly found themselves abroad.