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‘West caused Russian aggression’ dissident says

Sep 24, 2008
By TBT staff and wire reports

LAYING BLAME: Prominent Russian dissident Leonid Volkov, currently living in Germany, said that the West could have prevented Russian aggression by helping the country recover from the fall of the Soviet Union.
VILNIUS - Leonid Volkov, a renowned Russian dissident living in Germany, said in a speech in Kaunas that the West is partly responsible for the current Russian resurgence that led to the Georgia invasion. Volkov said the West should have helped Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union, but failed to do so. The current aggression, he said, comes from Russia’s inferiority complex, brought on by the fall of the Soviet Union. He said the situation in Georgia is a manifestation of this complex. ...

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