MOSCOW (AP) — If he could go back in time, Vladimir Putin’s mission would be to prevent the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union.

美联社莫斯科电 如果时光能够倒流，那么弗拉基米尔·普京的使命将是阻止苏联1991年解体。

That’s what he told a forum in the city of Kaliningrad on Friday. Taking questions from audience members, he was asked what occurrence in Russia he would have most liked to have prevented.

这是他于周五在加里宁格勒市的一个论坛上说的话。他被观众问及他最想阻止俄罗斯历史上的哪一起事件。

He replied "the disintegration of the Soviet Union," according to Russian news reports.

据俄罗斯新闻报道，他答道：“苏联解体。”

In 2005, Putin attracted wide attention when he said in a state-of-the-nation speech that the Soviet collapse was "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century."

2005年，普京引起了广泛关注，当时他在国情咨文中表示，苏联解体是“20世纪最大的地缘政治灾难。”

Putin’s comment Friday came a day after he announced that Russia had developed allegedly invincible new nuclear weapons, raising concerns of a new arms race like that of Soviet times.

在发布此番言论的前一天，普京宣布俄罗斯已经发展出了无敌的新核武，这引发了人们对类似苏联时代新武器竞争的担忧。