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Thierry Wolton: "Vladimir Putin had announced for fifteen years what he is doing today in Ukraine"

3/21/2022, 7:04:08 PM


TRIBUNE - Western countries have long had all the information necessary to harbor no illusions about Putin and his regime, argues the specialist in communist and post-communist regimes, author, in 2008, of a very alarming investigation into the master of the. ..

Thierry Wolton is a journalist and essayist.

Among his many remarkable works, let us point out "A world history of communism" in three volumes at Grasset, which caused an event: "Les Executioners" (2015), "Les Victimes" (2016), "Les Complices" (2017), crowned by the 2018 Today award.

A war criminal, a terrorist state according to Joe Biden, Putin and his Russia - not to be confused with the Russian people - now find themselves in the dock alongside such unsavory countries as North Korea, Iran, Syria, or the Afghanistan of the Taliban.

The sound of cannons raised awareness of the true nature of man and his regime, which for a long time enjoyed certain leniency in Western capitals and in public opinion.

The argument of a Russia surrounded by NATO, threatened by an enlargement of the European Union, even met with a certain echo at the start of the war, to the point of placing the responsibility for the conflict on the democracies…

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