Ukraine escalation: Kremlin propagandist threatens Germany with invasion
Created: 06/14/2022, 15:14
By: Bedrettin Bölükbasi
Journalist Vladimir Solovyov is one of the Kremlin propagandists promoting Putin's Ukraine war.
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In the middle of the Ukraine war, Putin's propagandist Solovyov rages against Minister of Culture Roth - and threatens Germany with an invasion.
Moscow — In the Ukraine conflict, Russian ruler Vladimir Putin's troops in eastern Ukraine are stepping up their attacks to conquer the entire Donbass.
This map shows where the Ukraine war is raging.
However, the Russian attacks are not limited to the military level.
On Russian state television, Western countries are repeatedly targeted with sometimes absurd statements and considerations.
Germany has also become the target - including the threat of a nuclear strike in Berlin in just 106 seconds.
The well-known Russian journalist and Kremlin propagandist Vladimir Solovyov has now turned to Germany again with a threat.
This time he threatened to invade Germany.
Statements by Federal Minister of Culture Claudia Roth (Greens) in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa were the trigger.
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Ukraine war: Roth statement in Odessa outraged Solovyov - he threatens "March of Soviet boots"
During her visit to Odessa on Tuesday
(June 7)
, Roth was presented with two stamps commemorating the sinking of the Russian cruiser Moskva after Ukrainian shelling.
She posed with the gift and repeated the text on the stamp several times with laughter: "F*ck you, Russian warship".
This scene apparently caused outrage among the Kremlin propagandist Solovyov, who used it as an opportunity to openly threaten Germany in his show “Abend” on Russian state television Rossiya-1.
BBC journalist Francis Scarr, who specializes in monitoring Russian state media, posted a snippet of the show on Twitter.
In a nod to the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II, the Russian propagandist threatened Germany with an invasion.
He didn't say the word, but his words were clear enough.
"She told us to fuck off!
And what should we do now?” the Kremlin journalist explains.
"Again shake the dust off the Germanic graves with the thunderous march of Soviet boots?" Solovyov threatens.
"Won't they understand the message differently?" Solovyov said.
The Germans would think they could do anything, including "send their tanks to the east, which will trample on Russian soil again".
He also sprinkled some German words into his statements.
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"When we talked about German culture, it seemed like a real phenomenon - and then came 2022!" Solovyov said shortly before his threat.
With a sarcastically raised voice and the words "The German Minister of Culture, look at that," he played Roth's statements in Odessa.
"Do you understand what I mean?" he then asked his guests and added: "DAS is the German Minister of Culture."
Eventually, Solovyov's anger became more and more pronounced.
The journalist close to Putin railed against the federal government.
"Do you think that after this government has recruited idiots, scum, louts and scoundrels, should we still talk to them about anything?" Solovyov asked on Russian state television: "Is THAT the German culture minister?"
However, the threat to a Western country on Russian state television is anything but new.
Pro-Kremlin journalists have repeatedly expressed their desire for a more aggressive stance towards the West.
Most recently, a moderator on the Rossija-1 broadcaster emphasized that the entire NATO had to be "demilitarized" in the course of the Ukraine war.
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