Kremlin Gets Flashback of Soviet Collapse in Brexit Fallout
- Russians experienced similar sense of uncertainty, Peskov says
- Russia is interested in ‘stable’ Europe, Kremlin says
St Basil's Cathedral, right, near Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on Thursday, July 17, 2014.
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The upheaval in the U.K. after its Brexit referendum in favor of leaving the European Union has similarities to the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman.
While it’s “unreasonable to draw direct parallels,” it’s obvious that the U.K. is going through a “turbulent, confusing and unpredictable period,” Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call Monday. Russia “has gone through the collapse of the Soviet Union and many generations clearly remember the period of the Soviet collapse, that period of uncertainty.”