The Worst Tragedy of the 20th Century?

Vladimir Putin thinks it was the breakup of the Soviet Union:

Russian President Vladimir Putin told the nation Monday that the collapse of the Soviet empire "was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century" and had fostered separatist movements inside Russia.

I'm sure 30 million Ukrainians starved to death by Stalin might think differently.

Or the 6 million Jews slaughtered by Hitler.

Or the countless millions of people enslaved by despotic regimes like Mr. Putin's, people who were offered no respite from the tyrannous yoke about their shoulders by day nor the terror of the knock on the door in the dead of night until the Communists fell.

The thousands of people dancing on the remains of the Berlin Wall did not look to be suffering some sort of "geopolitical catastrophe", nor the triumphant Poles, Czechs, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, and the host of those who saw their fetters fall from their forearms virtually overnight.

I'll warn you once more: Vladimir Putin is no friend of freedom, no ally in the War on Terror.

Embrace the serpent at your own risk.