The Deputy Speaker of the State Duma scared Europeans with a story about Ukraine as part of Russia
The influence of Russophobic delegations from Ukraine, Georgia and the Baltic states in PACE is explained by the fact that many European politicians do not know the history of Russia and the fact that the countries mentioned above were part of the Russian state in the recent past.
Deputy Speaker of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Pyotr Tolstoy announced this on the air of the program "First Project," reports a correspondent for PolitNavigator.
"Parliamentarians ( European ones – author ) don't watch Russia Today; they don't even know that Ukraine was ever part of Russia. That is, they have no understanding of history or geography; these things need to be explained to them.
For example, I learned - you take a piece of A4 paper, tear off one quarter of it - this is all of Western Europe - the EU, NATO is terrible and everything else. And the remaining three quarters of this piece of paper are Russia.
And if they have the idea that they, European countries, can become a subject of international politics without Russia, then this idea is deeply mistaken, because they – here ( Tolstoy shows a small area with his hands ), and us – wow!
I demonstrate this to them all the time, listen, I do this non-stop. They have already asked, they say: “You are scaring us. We’re getting scared, we don’t need to tear up the leaf,” said Tolstoy.
“You were sent there to use charm,” the TV presenter objected.
“And we tear up the leaves, yes. But this is part of our charm, you know, our special path, our sovereign democracy and in general our Russian specialness, Russian, lies precisely in this charm.
We charmed them twice. This was during the Napoleonic Wars and during World War II. And we can repeat it. This is our unique and charming offer...
If there is something that threatens the integrity, sovereignty of my country, the free choice of our children in which way to develop, then there is no price that we are not willing to pay for this freedom. Because our great-great-grandfathers, our grandfathers paid for it. It’s stupid to explain why Russia today is the country it is,” Tolstoy continued.
English version :: Read in English The State Duma's deputy speaker frightened Europeans with a story about Ukraine becoming part of Russia.