Putin once famously observed that the Soviet Union’s collapse was the greatest catastrophe of the twentieth century. Thus, his long-term objective has been to rebuild it in some form, perhaps as a supra-national union of member states like the European Union.
普京的野心不难发现。他曾经有一个著名的论断，苏联解体是二十世纪最大的灾难。因此，他的长期目标一直是以某种形式重建苏联，也许是一个类似于欧盟的由成员国构成的超国家联盟。