Revival of USSR No Longer Merely a Hope but Something Inevitable Quite Possibly in 2025, Wasserman Says

Paul Goble
    Staunton, Jan. 5 – Until relatively recently, most people assumed that the revival of the USSR was “impossible,” Anatoly Wasserman says; but now it as become obvious to an increasing number of people inside Russia and beyond that its revival, in the near future, is “inevitable.”
    The reason for that, the Duma deputy and pro-Kremlin commentator says, is that continental empires, of which the Soviet Union was one, are deeply rooted in history. They may fall apart for a time, but they are fated to come back together sooner rather than later (mk.ru/politics/2025/01/05/eto-neizbezhno-vasserman-nazval-datu-vozrozhdeniya-sssr.html).
Like other continental empires, Wasserman continues, Russia has fallen apart at various points but then come back together “generally in a larger and better form than it was before.” The prospects for that return are increasingly bright, and he suggests that it is entirely possible that the revival of the USSR may come during 2025.
Such predictions by Wasserman, long a proponent of Russian nationalism and imperialism, are no surprise; but there appearance in Moskovsky Komsomolets suggests that they reflect a growing pattern of thought in the Kremlin and thus must not be ignored as such extremist remarks typically are.
Instead, what Wasserman is saying and the timetable he suggests indicate that a significant portion of Russian officials around Putin and quite possibly Putin himself believe as he does and think that the time has come to push ahead rather than wait for developments as many have argued in the past.