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Putin Discloses the Event That Impacted His Life Most

© Sputnik / Aleksey Nikolskyi / Go to the mediabankJuly 21, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin during the No Nonsense Talk with Vladimir Putin held at the Sirius educational center for gifted children, Sochi.
July 21, 2017. Russian President Vladimir Putin during the No Nonsense Talk with Vladimir Putin held at the Sirius educational center for gifted children, Sochi. - Sputnik International
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the collapse of the Soviet Union was the event that impacted his life the most.

SOCHI (Sputnik) – Putin has previously called the breakup of the Soviet Union the "greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century."

"An event in my life? You’re putting me in a difficult position … Probably, the collapse of the Soviet Union," Putin said said speaking to children of the Sirius children’s center in Sochi.

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2015 (SPIEF 2015) in St. Petersburg, Russia - Sputnik International
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Earlier, Putin said that Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin had planted a "delay-action mine" by advocating for the individual republics' right to political secession.

Lenin, a Russian revolutionary and the leader of the Bolshevik party, was the first leader of the USSR and the government that succeeded Russia after the 1917 revolution.

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