“Vladimir Medinsky, an aide and close associate of President Vladimir Putin who led the Russian delegation at the meeting in Abu Dhabi, said in an interview with state television after the meeting that wherever the boot of a Russian soldier has stepped is already Russian land, and that a Russian soldier never retreats from territory his foot has touched. This claim and propaganda by Russian chauvinists are as absurd as they are false.”
Globalinfo.az reports that REAL party chairman Natig Jafarli made the remarks.
“Russian soldiers have been expelled from places where they set foot dozens of times. There is no need to delve into distant history; let us look at the past 80-90 years:
1) the Russian army was expelled from Eastern Europe,
2) it withdrew from the Baltic countries,
3) it fled Cuba and Syria,
4) it was forced to leave Azerbaijan twice in the past 35 years.
In other words, V. Medinsky, who was born in Ukraine’s Cherkasy region, which they are bombing today, and spent his childhood in the country they are now turning into ruins, is supposedly a historian. Textbooks he co-authored are used in Russian schools today, yet he knows neither history nor has a mindset suited to the modern world.”
Aliyar Khalil
Globalinfo.az
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