THIS said Putin in an hour-long speech on Ukraine: Praise of Stalin, Lenin and Indirect Threats – NEW TIME

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Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a large television speech on Monday that Ukraine’s accession to the NATO alliance was agreed in advance and is only a matter of time. He emphasized that Ukraine’s accession to NATO would pose a direct threat to Russia’s security. According to Putin, Ukraine will become the starting point for the attack.

According to Putin, the question of time is also when Ukraine will build its own nuclear weapon. He noted that Ukraine has the capacity to do so since Soviet times. He said that Russia could not respond to this real danger. Putin began his speech, addressed to both “Russians and Ukrainians,” with an excursion into history, returning to the years after the Bolshevik Revolution, when Soviet statehood was being built. The leader of the Russian Bolsheviks, Lenin, Putin called Ukraine the “author and architect”. He declared that Ukraine was created by Communist Russia and is an integral part of Russian history.

He criticized the Bolshevik and later the communist leadership for their mistakes and decisions, which became apparent in the wake of the collapse of the USSR. In this context, he criticized in particular the right of individual federal republics to withdraw from the USSR. “The collapse of our country was led by the strategic mistakes of the Communist Party leadership. The disintegration of historical Russia under the name of the USSR is their fault“Putin,” he said, adding that the Russian people had accepted the new geopolitical situation since the collapse of the USSR and helped the former republics, including Ukraine.