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  • TankieTanukiEnglish
    12·
    1 day ago

    [Putin] has been publicly discussing reclaiming [the Soviet] empire for decades now.

    I wasn’t aware of this. Can you provide me with some examples?

      • TankieTanukiEnglish
        13·
        19 hours ago

        Thanks for the reply.

        The author’s thesis is based on the speech that Putin gave upon assuming office in 1999-08-16, specifically the “zones of interest” phrase. Here it is with a couple paragraphs of context:

        Context

        The task of our foreign policy is to raise Russia’s prestige.

        Without that, we will be unable to either protect our citizens or help our exporters.

        So we will continue to take the most active part possible in peacekeeping operations and in the major international and regional organizations.

        Russia has been a great power for centuries, and remains so.

        It has always had and still has legitimate zones of interest abroad in both the former Soviet lands and elsewhere.

        We should not drop our guard in this respect, neither should we allow our opinion to be ignored.

        Russia has no need to be ashamed of its interests.

        It should not descend to that.

        source

        IMO, hearing a head-of-state swear to pursue their nation’s national interests is pretty banal stuff. Russia was part of an active interstate alliance in 1999.

        Has he said anything more “mask off” in the past 26 years?

    • Jiggle_PhysicsEnglish
      1·
      20 hours ago

      He seems to go between implying the original empire, and the USSR, however, the last one I saw was an address to a russian program to support young entrepreneurs, where he spends part of his speech discussing the expansion russia. He then tells the story of how peter the great annexed part of sweden. He claimed this wasn’t an invasion of sweden because, at one time, russia claimed that land, so it was merely restoration. It is stuff like this he has been doing. You can find him bringing up this sort of thing in public addresses of all sorts, where he just slips in how making whatever about russia better by restoring the empire, and using these types of stories to justify it.