Putin it mildly, this is not an encouraging remark

Russian President Vladimir Putin says that the collapse of the Soviet Union was a "geopolitical tragedy" whereby "tens of millions of our fellow citizens and countrymen found themselves beyond the fringes of Russian territory."

Putin is apparently referring to Russian nationals who lived in Russia's occupied neighbor states during the Soviet era. Frankly, however much we might sympathize with anyone who finds himself cut off from his or her native land, it's difficult to sympathize too much when they came to their present localities in the first place as agents of one of the most vile and vicious occupying powers in history.

A suggestion: at long last.....Russians, go home! The freedom of your host country is not a tragedy. The only tragedy is that you ever resided as a conqueror and an oppressor within her borders!