DtG:

I do not have mind reading capaility. Putin may e everything you say, but he is on record as saying (2005):

“First and foremost it is worth acknowledging that the demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century,” Putin said. “As for the Russian people, it became a genuine tragedy. Tens of millions of our fellow citizens and countrymen found themselves beyond the fringes of Russian territory.

“The epidemic of collapse has spilled over to Russia itself,” he said, referring to separatist movements such as those in Chechnya.

Putin’s statements were some of his strongest language to date about the Soviet collapse and come a month before the nation celebrates the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe, a conflict Russians call the “Great Patriotic War.”

Now, whether or nor Putin is expressing the loss of a unifying economic/ political doctrine which underlay the driving philosophy of Soviet Communism, or lamenting the loss of the power base of the hegemony held by the U.S.S.R. over Eastern Europe and world wide client states, his background as a Soviet citizen and apparatchick was entirely under this system and formed his internal model for his political world as a whole. The hypocrisy of his statements and actions is consistent with that model.

Meanwhile he is losing out on a proud set of World War 2 (Great Patriotic War) commemmoratives: The Battle of Stalingrad which is passing through the 80 year zone since the great Operation Uranus counterattack on 19 November 1942 under Zhukov and fast speeding toward the final entrapment and capture of Army Group South under Paulus on 2 February 1943. If Russia were not making their name a pariah right now they could be celebrating with former allies, or commemmorating iwth former foes as well. A pretty major propaganda loss and a potential time of healing between peoples as well.