Finland Russia Vladimir Putin

RUSSIAN FORMER ECONOMIC ADVISOR SAYS PUTIN CLAIMS FINLAND AS PART OF HISTORICAL RUSSIA…….

 

As I’ve said before, I do not consider Russia AN ASSET.

“Putin’s view is that he protects what belongs to him and his predecessors,” Mr Illarionov said. “Parts of Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic States and Finland are states where Putin claims to have ownership.

Vladimir Putin ‘wants to regain Finland’ for Russia, adviser says

Finland has increased border surveillance in recent weeks as Mr Putin moves to ‘protect what belongs to him and his predecessors’

After annexing Crimea and with troops massed on the border of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin will not stop trying to expand Russia until he has “conquered” Belarus, the Baltic states and Finland, one of his closest former advisers has said.

According to Andrej Illarionov, the President’s chief economic adviser from 2000 to 2005, Mr Putin seeks to create “historical justice” with a return to the days of the last Tsar, Nicholas II, and the Soviet Union under Stalin.

Speaking to the Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet, Mr Illarionov warned that Russia will argue that the granting of independence to Finland in 1917 was an act of “treason against national interests”.

More here. H/T: Iivi Anna Masso

2 Responses

  1. Relax, Ken.

    Putin might bring back free enterprise, vodka and cigarettes will be cheaper and he will have the slackers shipped off to the gulags. Might not be so bad after all…. (LOL!)

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