The link for the piece on Putin longing for the days of the communist Soviet Union is apparently no longer working. Here’s a site that has the article:
“World democratic opinion has yet to realize the alarming implications of President Vladimir Putin’s State of the Union speech on April 25, 2005, in which he said that the collapse of the Soviet Union represented the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.” What this former KGB officer is saying is that it would have been better for the world if a totalitarian dictatorship, one that in the seven decades of its existence was responsible for the deaths of tens of millions of Russians and other peoples or their imprisonment in a Gulag slave labor system, were still to exist. Just imagine if German chancellor Gerhard Schroeder were to announce that the fall of the Third Reich was the “greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.”
http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Putin%27s+Russia—Stalin+lite.-a0133838999
This is the most powerful site I have found
Stories from communist Ukraine
http://www.ukrainiangenocide.org/survivors.html