LE FIGARO. - During his interview with Tucker Carlson, Putin mentioned Poland twenty-two times, and presented it as the culprit of the outbreak of World War II. How can we understand this relentlessness and this rewriting of history?
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ANDRZEJ NOWAK. -
I follow the evolution of the “
Putinian imagination
» on the theme of history.
Since 2005, on the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, Putin began to present his historical views by putting forward, for his Western interlocutors, the old concept of zone of influence.
He did this notably in an article in Le
Figaro
, “The Lessons of the Victory over Nazism”, where he presents Russia as the only civilized and humanist country to the east of Germany, explaining that it must facing all kinds of petty fascist nationalisms around her.
In 2005, the Baltic States were Putin's favorite targets.
Then it will be the turn of…
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