"A Soviet miracle": Russia's state TV glorifies Ukraine war
Created: 01/04/2023 11:26 am
By: Nail Akkoyun
A Soviet flag in front of the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin.
(Archive photo) © Vladimir Gerdo/Imago
The Soviet Union has long been history, but according to Russian state television it should "continue to exist" - and also legitimize the Ukraine war.
MOSCOW – Vladimir Putin's mourning for the Soviet Union is nothing new.
But now Russian state television is also talking about shifting borders and looking at the past through rose-tinted glasses.
So it is hardly surprising that suddenly more than ever attempts are being made to assess the Russian invasion of Ukraine in a historical context.
In a segment of the
Russia-1
program "Evening with Vladimir Solovyov", the eponymous propagandist spoke with history professor Yelena Ponomaryeva about the achievements of the Soviet Union, writes
fr.de
.
It is "significant" that the Ukraine war began on the centenary of the founding of the USSR in 1922.
A snippet was tweeted
by journalist Julia Davis via her
Russian Media Monitor .
Russian state television longs for Soviet Union: "Will always exist"
The Soviet Union was "a just nation of peoples" - a project that the West still "would not condone," Ponomaryeva said.
The West “cannot accept that all our achievements and breakthroughs were really a Soviet miracle.” At present, with the “military special operation” in the neighboring country, among other things, attempts are being made to correct the “mistakes and problems at the heart of this project [… ] to be overcome with blood, pain and tears".
It then became pathetic when the history professor from the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO) declared that the Soviet Union continues to “exist and always will exist as long as we think of it”.
Then moderator Solovyov interrupted her and said with a dramatic expression: "The USSR is my motherland." After all, he had "sworn an oath".
In the same show, Solovyov called life "overrated" when it came to Russian soldiers in the Ukraine war.
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Another panelist, political scientist Sergey Miklev, complained that many students hardly knew the map of the USSR and the changes of Russian territories over the last 100 years.
He then threw out the adventurous suggestion of showing the old borders of the Soviet Union on maps of Russia.
"Then it will be clear from an early age why we have influence in these countries." (nak)