Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that after the break-up of the Soviet Union, taxis were used to cover domestic expenses for a long time.
According to the World News Agency, the Russian President described the collapse of the Soviet Union as a tragic event and said that Russian citizens were saddened by the disintegration of the Soviet Union.
President Putin said emotionally that the disintegration of the Soviet Union was in fact the fragmentation of historic Russia, then known as the Soviet Union.
The Russian president added that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the economy collapsed and poverty was rampant. I also drove a taxi. We have handled it with great difficulty.
Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed these views while talking to filmmakers who are dubbing a film based on Russian history into Russian, with the aim of informing the new generation about Russian history.
It should be noted that the Soviet Union, an alliance of Russian socialist states, was formed in 1922 and lasted until 1991.