President Putin spoke to the Russian people on Monday evening. This is tweetstorm translating it:
"historically, the inhabitants of the south-western regions have called themselves 'russian' and 'orthodox'. we think this is self-evident."
"modern ukraine was completely and utterly created by the bolsheviks. this process began immediately after the revolution of 1917. lenin and his comrades did this in a manner which was very rough on russia proper, by cutting off a historical part of its territory."
he's elaborating on stalin & khruschev cutting off parts of russia, creating "soviet ukraine".
putin elaborating on the bolsheviks compromising with ukrainian nationalists to create the chimera of "ukraine". nothing you haven't heard on our episode on ukrainian history!
"why did the communists make such generous presents to the minority nationalists? this makes no sense, it is insane. but there is an explanation: after the revolution, the main goal of the bolsheviks was to stay in power by any means necessary."
"the leninist principles of nation-building weren't just a mistake, they were 'worse than a mistake'. this became extremely obvious in 1991."
"we cannot change the past, but we have to speak about it openly and honestly."
"ukraine was completely built and created by lenin. he was its architect, including his orders on including donbass in the ukrainian soviet republic by force."
"now the ukrainians destroy lenin monuments and want decommunization. you want decommunization? we can show you what REAL DECOMMUNIZATION means in ukraine."
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