Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday said that everything should have been done to maintain the territorial integrity of USSR .
“Without sticking [our] head in the sand and leaving [our] butt exposed, [we] should have insistently, fearlessly and consistently striven for the territorial integrity of our state,” Putin said during his live Q&A session when asked about his possible moves if he was ruling the country during the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
Timely economic reforms and democratic transformations could have saved the USSR, Putin said.
