We'll never know the truth.
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."
Putin is channeling Stalin, led by this ultra-nationalist Dugin character.
That is also bullchit.
My first thought was that it is so “Putinesque”, and although Dugin is always described as Putin’s “Mentor”, he has done some rather strange housecleaning lately. He definitely has become rather paranoid (out of necessity), or as the author said, “if they really are out to get you, then it really isn’t paranoia, is it?” Stalin certainly went through a similar phase when he decided that he couldn’t trust anyone, and even had their likeness removed from all photos, right after he murdered his closest confidants.