(ANSA) - WASHINGTON, 18 MAR - The intense nine-minute video published on Twitter by Arnold Schwarzenegger in which, with subtitles in Cyrillic, he addressed Russian soldiers to "tell them what they don't know" has been viewed for over 700. 000 people in Russia.
CNN reports it.
In total, the post had over 30 million views.
The celebrated actor and former California governor had also addressed Vladimir Putin directly and told him: "You started this war, you are waging this war, you can stop this war."
In the video Schwarzenegger told his personal experience of him, professing admiration for those who protest against the war in Russia calling them his "new heroes".
And he explained what is not revealed by the Moscow government.
"The government has told you that it is a war to denazify Ukraine, it is not true. Ukraine is a country with a Jewish president," he said, stressing that seeing the images of this conflict reminds him of the atrocities of the Second World War and, speaking of his father who was a Nazi emergent, he told Russian soldiers: "