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Russian State TV Lays Out Plans for New Empire
Newsweek ^ | 9/29/23 | ALISS HIGHAM

Posted on 09/29/2023 4:37:35 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

A Russian propagandist has called for the reinstatement of the Russian Empire, saying that's the country's ultimate goal.

As Russia continues its military offensive against Ukraine, Russian propagandist Sergey Mardan alluded to a misconception that Russia wishes to restore the USSR, which collapsed in 1991, and instead suggested the country could rewind the clock back beyond the days of the Russian Empire.

His comments come as President Vladimir Putin announced a new Russian holiday, the "Day of Unification," on September 30, to mark the illegal annexation of the Dontesk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine.

Putin declared them to be new Russian territory a year ago, following referendums not acknowledged under international law and he entrenched the move in the Russian constitution. He made a similar move after the illegal annexation of Crimea, which is celebrated in Russia on March 18.

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TOPICS: Russia
KEYWORDS: 20230318; 20230930; alittlepieceofpoland; annexation; crimea; dayofunification; empire; expansionism; invasion; kosovo; notourproblem; putinswar; russellbonnerbentley; russianimperialism; serbia; sudentenland; territorialambition; ussr
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To: kiryandil
Things aren't looking good for the Russia-haters in the Slovakian elections tomorrow.

Zelensky needs to act more like Eisenhower, not Patton so he can secure what he needs from the West.

21 posted on 09/29/2023 5:10:50 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

They know the US will cut off Ukraine. They are making plans for the expansion to other Russian speaking neighborhoods. There’s one across the river from me, I guess they have that on their “to do” list.


22 posted on 09/29/2023 5:11:18 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: MinorityRepublican

Since the beginning of Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine, the deep-state ultra-government people in Moscow are roaming around like chickens without heads.

They are pressing buttons... blindly throwing missiles all over the place, while executing their own people by the hundred thousands on the killing fields of foreign countries - while pushing the philosophy of endless wars.

Evidently they want to restore the old Soviet-Union, those who haven’t understood this yet are simply not sincere.


23 posted on 09/29/2023 5:12:19 PM PDT by USA-FRANCE
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To: CodeToad
You seriously need to read a history book.....

Yes indeed. Studying real history and not U-Toob videos will show you why Ukraine should get all the support we can give her. Let me hand you a reading assignment: Post War by Tony Judt, Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder, Churchill, by Lord Moran, both books by M. Stanton Evans and Herbert Romerstein. There are hundreds of others, but those will occupy the typical "useful idiot"(Lenin's term, not mine) for a few weeks, if not months.

Meanwhile look up https://ricochet.com/1214468/finnish-intelligence-officer-explains-the-russian-mindset/

24 posted on 09/29/2023 5:12:39 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: MinorityRepublican

Probably a Russian version of Don Lemon.


25 posted on 09/29/2023 5:21:02 PM PDT by glorgau
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

“will show you why Ukraine should get all the support we can give her”

You might have read a few things but you didn’t understand them.


26 posted on 09/29/2023 5:23:57 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

Trump hater Tim Snyder loves this war.


27 posted on 09/29/2023 5:26:42 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: MinorityRepublican

American propagandists telling us about Russian propagandists. What a waste of paper.


28 posted on 09/29/2023 5:30:00 PM PDT by TonyinLA (I don't have sufficient information to formulate a reasoned opinion said no lefty ever.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

IMO-—PUTIN WANTS TO GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS THE PERSON WHO PUT THE ORIGINAL SOVIET UNION BACK TOGETHER-—BEFORE HE DIES.

HE WANTS THAT LEGACY.


29 posted on 09/29/2023 5:30:45 PM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: CodeToad
I was just about to add Children of Rus by Faith Hill, but I didn't understand that one either, according to the U-Toob history professor here.
30 posted on 09/29/2023 5:33:09 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: MinorityRepublican

FTA:

“the ‘Day of Unification,’ on September 30, to mark the illegal annexation of the Dontesk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine.”

These areas (and Crimea) are mentioned in a history channel, giving the insights of a young Wehrmacht private in the first year of “Operation Barbarosa”.

https://youtu.be/K-UtNXssALs?si=ZxIgJSiqJ75uoW0J


31 posted on 09/29/2023 5:33:37 PM PDT by Does so ( 🇺🇦...................."Who is Ray Epps?" should be overstamped on every piece of currency.)
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To: ridesthemiles

They’ll remember him as Vlad the Mad Tsar.


32 posted on 09/29/2023 5:37:45 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: ridesthemiles
PUTIN WANTS TO GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS THE PERSON WHO PUT THE ORIGINAL SOVIET UNION BACK TOGETHER

This probably isn't the appropriate forum to recycle Biden telemprompts.

Biden: Putin ‘wants to reestablish the former Soviet Union,’ will pay a heavy price
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/biden-putin-is-the-aggressor-and-will-pay-a-severe-price-for-invading-ukraine/

33 posted on 09/29/2023 5:38:57 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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To: MinorityRepublican

You people are going to post every extremist calling for wild things but you never seem to get around to posting what the neo Nazis, which have been formally integrated into the Ukrainian National Guard, have to say .....

A blogger/radio host says some crazy stuff and you people try to act like it’s the Russian government saying those things.

Early today, one of your kind posted the ravings of someone elese previously detained by the Russian government because of his support for a man the Russians jailed for extremism. He too was calling for violence against the Ukraine. Once again, the nut was portrayed as the mouthpiece of Russia, when in fact Russia acts against his extremism.


34 posted on 09/29/2023 5:40:14 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote
A blogger/radio host says some crazy stuff and you people try to act like it’s the Russian government saying those things.

It's Russia. So yes.

35 posted on 09/29/2023 5:42:27 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: TonyinLA

Biden loved the Soviet Union and fought Reagan backwards and forwards. Now these fools defend their hero and his regime by citing the Gipper.


36 posted on 09/29/2023 5:44:06 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: Texan5

—the old tsar’s crown is still around”

STILL AROUND?

Putin keeps on his nightstand with Stalin’s photo album (uncensored/unretouched).

He wears it every evening to clear his thoughts.


37 posted on 09/29/2023 5:53:23 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT ( "The enemy has overrun us. We are blowing up everything. Vive la France!"Dien Bien Phu last message)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Neocons started this crap, Russia, apparently, plans to FINISH IT, once and for all.


38 posted on 09/29/2023 6:01:36 PM PDT by BobL (I own an F150 so that I can tow my boat all day Saturday and look Manly)
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To: MinorityRepublican

obviously this minister is an undercover CIA agent paid to make Russia look like an aggressor


39 posted on 09/29/2023 6:05:13 PM PDT by Redmen4ever
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To: MinorityRepublican

Just let Putin have Ukraine, he promises he has no more territorial ambitions after that..........


40 posted on 09/29/2023 6:24:04 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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