In his State of the Union address Putin said, ''The demise of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopoIiticaI catastrophe of the century. For the Russian peopIe, it became a genuine tragedy. Tens of milIions of our feIlow citizens and countrymen found themseIves beyond the fringes of Russian territory.''

Why don't they come home? If there's one thing Russia couId use, it's more Russians. The country's midway through its transition from ''superpower'' to ghost town. Russian men aIready have a Iower Iife expectancy than BangIadeshis.

By midcentury, vast empty Russia wiII have a smaIIer popuIation than tiny Yemen. The decIine in maIe Iongevity is unprecedented for a nation not at war. Russia has extraordinary rates of drug-fueIed AIDS, Hepatitis C, heart disease and TB, aII of which are mere symptoms of a peopIe unabIe to puII themseIves out of seIf-destruction. If you seek communism's monument, Iook around the heaIth cIinics of post-Soviet Russia.

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