Posted on 06/09/2022 9:07:00 PM PDT by Cronos
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday compared his current actions to Peter the Great's conquest of the Baltic coast during his 18th-century war against Sweden.
After visiting an exhibition in Moscow dedicated to the 350th birthday of tsar Peter the Great, Putin told a group of young entrepreneurs that "you get the impression that by fighting Sweden he was grabbing something. He wasn't taking anything, he was taking it back."
When Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg and declared it the Russian capital "none of the countries in Europe recognized this territory as belonging to Russia," Putin said.
"Everyone considered it to be part of Sweden. But from time immemorial, Slavs had lived there alongside Finno-Ugric peoples," the Russian leader added.
"It is our responsibility also to take back and strengthen," Putin said, in an apparent reference to Russia's offensive in Ukraine.
he compared Peter’s campaign with Russia’s current military actions."Apparently, it also fell to us to return [what is Russia’s] and strengthen [the country]. And if we proceed from the fact that these basic values form the basis of our existence, we will certainly succeed in solving the tasks that we face.”
...In July 2021, the Kremlin published an almost 7,000-word essay by Putin, entitled “On the historical unity of Russians and Ukrainians”, in which he argued that Russia and Ukraine were one nation, artificially divided. It laid the groundwork for his deployment of troops to Ukraine in February.
..the Russian leader offered cautious praise for Joseph Stalin for creating “a tightly centralised and absolutely unitary state”,
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The war in Ukraine was never about nutzis or NATO or medical laboratories or ethnic Russians.
Putin admits this was about conquest and recreating the Tsarist empire
Exactly
No ego on this turd
Peter the Great’s conquest of the NAZIs?
Yeah, but everyone knows how lopsided the Moscow Times has
been with its coverage... We can’t believe this.
Propaganda, propaganda, propaganda, propaganda... /s
If we could recover all the egg off the faces of Putin’s
Free Republic sycophants, it would help feed the homeless
at breakfast time for a decade.
Tup. And these are the actual words of Putin.
What soon will putinistas come up with now?
I’m sure there will be something. He was forced to say it????
LOL
Hit him again, Z! Let’s see a Jooo! clown beat his a@@. Then it’ll be time for Finland to have another go. 1939-40 was too long ago.
:^) Well put. Vlad the Imploder will continue to push Russians and (hooray) Chechens into early graves until someone near him gets some gumption.
Interesting...
Did Peter the Great get his ass kicked by Ukraine, too ?
Nah. Ottomans. But he made the same mistake of thinking they’d be an easy win, so he went into battle unprepared.
Ukraine, btw, is no longer kicking Vlad’s a@@ at the moment. But it could still happen.
But then, who will replace him?
Some other violent a-hole may eventually rise through what is left of the ranks, but his immediate successors will need to scale back the adventurism and imperialism of the current regime.
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