The Kremlin leadership has cultivated a special brand of “Dolchstosslegende” since the collapse of the Soviet Union 30 years ago. The leader of the powerful Investigative Committee, Aleksandr Bastrykin, claimed in 2016 that the USSR collapsed because of “foreign intervention”: “The destruction of the ideological fundament of the USSR, the principle of the brotherhood of nations, was instigated from abroad.”
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A red flag is seen above a bust of the Soviet state founder and revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov aka Lenin as Russian Communist party members and supporters attend a flower-laying ceremony marking the 149th anniversary of his birth, on Red Square in Moscow, April 22, 2019.
