CNN Flashback: Fall of Soviet Union Meant Just Another Capitalist Country

[See NewsBusters for more.] As the crisis in Ukraine escalates, threatening Europe and the world, journalists and media outlets have rightly and consistently highlighted the cruel aggression of former KGB agent Vladimir Putin. However, the same outlets that now showcase the horror of an attempted restoration of the Soviet Union previously gushed about the glory days of a regime that murdered 20 million people. In 1990, CNN lamented, "The people seem baffled, disappointed, let down. Many don’t like the prospect of their nation becoming just another capitalist machine.”