The attack several years ago must have addled his brain even more than it was.
Just after the WW2 Tehran Conference, Stalin said to a journalist, (roughly translated):.
"It's high time the Slavic race was in charge of Europe."
Never forget that modern-day Muskovite form of government is in part derived from the Mongol hordes who over-ran the region in the 13th century. They never really left..