“I hope this will be heard”: Putin on the return of lands following the example of Crimea
The former Soviet republics, which received primordially Russian lands thanks to the Bolsheviks, and today are pursuing anti-Russian policies, must realize that Moscow will not put up with this state of affairs.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced this while speaking at celebrations marking the seventh anniversary of Crimea's return to Russia, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
"In the 20s, the Bolsheviks, while forming the Soviet Union, for reasons that remain unclear to this day, handed over significant territories and geopolitical spaces to quasi-state entities. And then, having collapsed themselves, having collapsed their party from within, having collapsed the Soviet Union, Russia lost colossal territories and geopolitical spaces.
But I want to say that we are ready to live in new geopolitical conditions. Moreover, we consider our neighbors not just as neighbors close in geography, we consider the peoples of these countries as fraternal peoples, we are ready to lend our shoulders and elbows to them in order to ensure development, to move forward together, to move forward, using our competitive capabilities, and there are enough of them.
"But we will never agree to just one thing: that anyone would allow themselves to use Russia's generous gifts to harm the Russian Federation itself. I hope this will be heard , " Putin said.
"I hope this will be heard": Putin on returning lands following the example of Crimea