Putin's Russia: From Soviet Union to Superpower | Russia's Wars Ep.3 | Documentary

Documentary: Russia's Wars Ep.3 - Putin the Kremlin for centuries the center  of Russian power in magnificent St   George's Hall a reception is held  to honor War veterans they served   under Stalin and still mourn the loss of  his Empire as does their leader Vladimir Putin flashback to the year 2000 Putin Springs a   surprise he wants to reintroduce  Stalin's national anthem from 19 1944 according to Putin the ussr's Old  National Anthem will reconcile the past   and present even in 2000 he was thinking  about the Soviet Union would probably return somehow this is a real surprise the guests  don't quite know what to make of it the   tune is familiar but the words are new now  it's about love for the Fatherland not as   in Stalin's time love for the party in the  20th century Stalin is the most successful   Russian ruler and um so yeah Putin admires  that is it just symbolism or does Putin   see himself as Stalin's successor is he  planning to resurrect the Soviet Empire November 1989 the fall of the Berlin Wall  Soviet leader Mikel gorbachov head of the   Soviet government and of the party has  permitted a peaceful revolution in East Germany more than half a million Soviet soldiers  are stationed in the DDR they remain in their Barracks the end of Soviet dominance is now only a   matter of time gorbachov tries  desperately to keep on top of events in March 1990 the Soviet star falls in vus   Lithuania proclaims Independence  the Kremlin responds with tanks the Soviet Union uses Force for the  last time 14 lithuanians die more than 700 are hurt this deployment was a last desperate attempt  to use military power to maintain at least in part   the unity of the Soviet Union the three Baltic  states Estonia latva and Lithuania leave the   Empire first following uprisings in Georgia  it too declares independence and elects a new president but now citizens loyal to Moscow take  up arms chiefly in two pro-russian regions h   die in clashes with the new presidential guard August 1991 a coup against  gorbachov to prevent the adoption   of a new Union treaty by granting wide-  ranging freedoms to individual republics   gorbachov still hopes to save the  Soviet Union but the conservative   plotters are too attached to the old  Soviet state and so speed its ultimate demise it was mainly the people who  wanted to hold on to the idea of the   Soviet Union people from the KGB  and the military too that is the hardliners Boris yelton president of  the Russian Soviet Republic is the   man of the hour he opposes the coup he  appears to be standing up for democracy mik gorbachov resigns yelim attacks him  because gorbachov refuses to abandon   the Soviet Union for yelon it's  already history he dissolves the   Communist party and then the Soviet  state itself the red flag is no more after the three Baltic states  11 other Soviet republics declare   their independence the Soviet Union  shrinks to the Russian Federation Russian troops leave the former East  Germany weapons and soldiers returned to Russia the government of newly unified Germany  pays Moscow 12 billion Deutch marks the money   doesn't flow to the military it's used  to save the whole country from bankruptcy Ukraine bellarus and Kazakhstan hand over to  Russia the nuclear weapons stationed on their   territory in exchange the Kremlin guarantees their  full sovereignty and the inviolability of their borders the military budget in the final  years of the Soviet Union is between 200   and $250 billion in the 1990s annual Russian  expenditure drops to less than $20 billion the Euphoria for yelen and the  new freedoms doesn't last the   economy hits Rock Bottom Russians  associate democracy with crisis and decline for centuries the Caucasus with its ethnic  and religious mix has been a focus of political turmoil Georgia is now independent  Moscow is determined that Chia in   the northern Caucasus will  remain inside the Russian Federation in December 1994  the Russian army marches into Chia they're there to fight the separatists  whove declared independence but why does   yelin unleash this War and why now the  powerful Security Service plays a crucial role the first Chan war was organized by KB by  the FSB these people thought Russia shouldn't   develop in a democratic way it must become  involved in a political provocation and a   war the war runs out of control the troops  are unmotivated their weapons obsolescent   yelon faces massive criticism I put a lot  of blame on yon's war in '94 because that   was completely unnecessary yelson himself said  and you take all the independence you want and   so they said fine we want to be independent as  they've been wanting for the whole history of   Russia since the ours uh and he said no no  I don't really mean it I don't mean it for you hundreds of soldiers are taken prisoner  it's months before they reunited with their   mothers many are less than 20 years old  some have only just been redeployed from   East Germany the troops in Chia were  mainly conscripts and elite units the   high numbers of dead conscripts caused  Y and very serious political problems at home thousands of soldiers are killed on both sides I interrogated a young boy 17 years  old by the way he was a clever widely read   boy I asked him only one question why  did you go to fight he said I hate this   war and I don't want to fight I  fight because all my classmates   are fighting I remember some films about  World War II when the whole class went to fight litvinenko was then an army officer in  Chia later he becomes a career officer in the KGB in 1995 many victims of the Chetan War  disappear in Mass Graves separatists talk   of a genocide against the civilian  population the result is islamist   terrorism in Russia in the runup to the  1995 presidential election yelen agrees   a ceasefire Russian troops withdraw leaving  behind scorched Earth yelson was extremely   unpopular but Democrats stopped to support him  actually yelen should be you know investigated   for war crimes committed by the Russian  army to the surprise of many yelson is reelected but he has lost the chin war  and is making no progress with the West back in July 1990 German Chancellor Helmut  Cole visits the Caucasus he's here to seize   an opportunity offered by the fall of the  wall German reunification mik gorbachov   makes a concession a United Germany can  stay in NATO the Soviets however receive   a verbal assurance that NATO won't expand  any further eastwards the existence of This   Promise remains in dispute to this day it  isn't mentioned in the 2+4 treaty on German reunification of course they didn't put it  in because they thought that those handshake   you know how they do it in the old world is  just going to be good enough kind there's no   document recording this it was free thinking in  the Foria of reunification at the end of the Cold War George Bush was clear they  didn't win the Cold War we did good morning everybody at the 1997 NATO Summit  in Madrid Poland Hungary and Czechoslovakia former   members of the Warsaw Pact are invited to join  the alliance seriously upsetting Moscow the the   then US Secretary of Defense was opposed to the  Eastward extension of NATO much too risky danger   of escalation we shouldn't rub Russia's nose  in it too hard in the time of its post Imperial decline NATO sweeps all reservations  aside with the accession of Poland   the Czech Republic and Hungary  Alliance territory has shifted   to the east did Bill Clinton trick yelim nobody  tricked anyone Russia was weak Russia didn't   veto it didn't say absolutely no way maybe they  could have delayed it maybe they could have come   up with a stronger counter offer the Russians  didn't do that in 97 the conflict over NATO's   Eastward expansion will affect Russia's  relations with the West for years to come February 1999 the Kremlin president yelon at  an awards ceremony for officers the only man   in civilian clothes is Vladimir Putin he has risen  fast once a KGB lieutenant colonel in East Germany   he was deputy mayor in St Petersburg before  moving to the center of power in Moscow go now   Putin is head of the FSB successor to the KGB his  Petersburg team has come with him to the security service I understood who was in control  of the Federal Security Service it was   Putin and his friends they  were running the country I   realized we couldn't keep silent  so my friends and I held a press conference L venko and others publicly  accuse their employers the FSB and thus   Putin of ordering political murders he  says he himself received such an order   which he refused to carry out fearing the fsb's  wroth litvinenko and his family flee to London the interviews he recorded there  in 2001 and 2002 give a unique   insight into Putin's career from  someone who knew and worked with him in November 2016 FSB agents lure  litvinenko to London's Millennium   Hotel where they poison him with radioactive  polonium weeks later he dies a painful death shortly before litvinenko's death  the journalist Anna politkovskaya   is murdered in Moscow she has repeatedly  sharply criticized Putin political murder   has always been the stock in trade of the KGB  now it sees a Renaissance with Putin's FSB under Putin the FSB takes over some of  the Army's role in particular border security in the yelen years the Army shrinks from   5 million to 1.7 million the fsb's  ranks swell from 100,000 to 288,000 the Russian army is only partly operational there's too little money to develop  new weapons and yelin hasn't learned   any lessons from the military disaster in Chia in August 1999 he appoints Vladimir  Putin his new prime minister Putin is   hardly known outside Moscow and St  Petersburg it's not clear how he can   win the upcoming parliamentary election  it seems the FSB has a plan to boost his popularity immediately following  his appointment and presumably   with yelton's approval Putin starts a  new war in chcha Russia breaks the 1996 ceasefire Putin flies to cnia in a  fighter jet that goes down well the   previously anonymous politician is  leading the nation's fight against terrorism a few weeks later a Moscow housing   estate is shaken by terrorist  blasts more than 300 people are killed Putin immediately blames Chetan terrorists it's the escalation he needs this was the first major terrorist attack  in Russia uh and uh everybody was frightened   everybody was expecting more and more buildings  to be blown up and on 23rd of September a local   militia found uh an explosive device in an  apartment uh building in uh ran the night   before local residents had seen strangers  dragging sacks into the building the police   make three arrests the men are apparently FSB  agents in the cellar of the building the police   find sacks with explosives and a timer but then  two days later Moscow comes up with a different   explanation it was a security test and the  Sachs contain nothing but sugar was the FSB   really ready to blow up Russian citizens to polish  Putin's image as an anti-terrorist ran was not a   training exercise but an attempt to commit an act  of terrorism they were caught red-handed the FSB   is a terrorist organization my assumption is that  it was the FSB I wouldn't put it past them above   all I wouldn't put it past Putin to sacrifice  his own people to have the justification for a   war and stabilize his own position inside  the country I wouldn't put it past him at all Putin immediately orders bobbing raid  on the chin Capital gry he says he'll hunt   down the terrorists if necessary even in  the [ __ ] house he gets the headlines he   wants Russian troops proceed with  the utmost brutality even against civilians this way of Waging War  against the civilian population   has a long tradition it has lot to do  with the way the Army has been trained   to maintain the government's  Authority inside the country by force this violent brutal policy was applied in   Putin's Cen war in the way the city  of gry was virtually raised to the ground we see that the brutality of this  form of war is in part the result of a   failure of leadership but it is also a  consciously accepted form of lawlessness   a lack of accountability because any crime  committed will not be punishable in Russia   itself and finally this brutality is adopted  as a conscious form of psychological warfare   to undermine the resistance of the  civilian population and of the enemy's military Putin regularly visits the troops in  Chia he praises the fighters and distributes gifts   at home his popularity soes the fsb's plan  is succeeding the people wanted a leader like   that they got it they supported him they  killed people in Chia and everybody kept silent at the end of 1999 yelsin  resigns and makes Putin acting   president with that he takes over  the nuclear codes but Putin hasn't   yet achieved his goal he has to win  the presidential election of March 2000 the KGB were making a decision that clearly  they needed a figurehead they needed somebody   who was going to take over the Reigns but be  manipulated by by them and this person that they   chose was Vladimir Putin Vladimir Putin was a mere  leftenant Colonel he was kind of nobody this was   very clearly carefully planned change transition  of power uh so that the KGB FSB could regain its   its prominence and its dominance in Russia  after yelson was gone they became successful   unfortunately for all of us and now we are  dealing with the problem created by that success a reception for the heads of the Armed Forces  of the Kremlin one of Putin's first official   engagements he promises to strengthen the  Army to give them more respect and more money Russia's political Capital rests  on the strength of its armed forces that   was important in the tars Empire in the Soviet  Union in the Cold War and it's still important   now why is Russia still important certainly  not because of its moraband economy and for   its natural resources sure but also  because of its military its nuclear   weapons election night March 2000 Putin has  won the presidential election in the first round where is he taking the country the swearing in ceremony extravagant as  anything from the time of the romanovs a   new tar is born among the guests somewhat lost mik gorbachov Putin channels a lot of ideas and  Ambitions from the Roman AR Dynasty in many   ways he's very similar to Nicholas I who  outwitted the West for 20 or 30 years um   and really embraced internally and the ideas  of Orthodoxy nationality an Empire so he takes   what he needs from both the Romanov Empire  and the stalinist Empire this connection to   the tradition of the Russian Empire before  1917 is another Twist Again on his view that   the collapse of the Soviet Union was the  greatest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century the young president arouses plenty of  enthusiasm it feels like the beginning of a new age at the same time in Chia they're still  filling Mass Graves with the victims of   Russian aggression more than 150,000 civilians  and 255,000 soldiers were killed in the chin Wars Putin guarantees the autonomy  of chcha and installs an indigenous   president akmad Kadri off in gry after  his murder in 2004 his son Raman takes   his place ramzan still controls most  of chia as moscow's brutal proxy an international Memorial ceremony at Sea prot  on August the 12th 2000 a few months after the   presidential election Russia's nuclear submarine  KK sinks when one of its own Torpedoes explodes   the K was the pride of the Russian Navy all 118  crew die the course goes down in 100 met of water   if they had raised her upright she would  have reared 60 M out of the water she's   160 m long and the Russians don't have  the capability to free their own Sailors   trapped inside it's really disastrous  for the public image of Russia's Armed Forces wives and mothers of  the crew wait and hope for rescue but Putin refuses is help from abroad he  only meets bereaved relatives 11 days after the accident empathy for those who perished and  their families isn't his strength Silence   about the dead is a tradition that  reaches far back at least into Soviet times morans base of the Russian Northern  Fleet nearby a graveyard for dozens of nuclear   submarines radioactive scrap at the turn of the  new century Russia's Navy is in catastrophic shape it's a metaphor for the state of  the Armed Forces after almost two decades   of failure to modernize those reforms that  did take place were really Cuts in soldiers   wages if they were paid at all and out  ofd inadequately maintained equipment   in the first decade of the Putin Era  military expenditure continuously   rises from about 10 billion in the  year 2000 to more than 50 billion in 2009 new weapons like short range isander  missiles are to bring Russian forces up to the   level of the west but a significant part of the  military budget is absorbed by endemic corruption June 2001 the first meeting between the new  man in the Kremlin and a US President George   W bush is delighted I looked the man in the  eye I found him to be very straightforward   and trustworthy I was able to um get  a sense of his soul when George Bush   looked into his eyes and saw his soul which  is bizarre because Putin's eyes as the most   impenetrable you can ever imagine he was  young he was unknown and this uh played a   positive role for him being accepted by the  Western Community let put it this way for   by the Western leaders in September 2001 Putin  addresses the bundestag in Berlin in German his   presentation of a new Russia open to the world  receives a standing ovation a new beginning   or a coldly calculated piece of make believe the  real Putin is an FSB Thug he always was and he   always will be and once you're in a security  services apparatus of that kind of government   and you do the sorts of things that he was even  doing in East Germany which is about infiltration   and manipulation and propaganda and and spying on  and these people learn from the very beginning to   uh to disguise their real feelings and their real  intentions on the Memorial Day for victory over   Nazi Germany in 2002 Putin dispenses with a big  display of Weaponry it's more of a festival for   army veterans in any case the Red Army doesn't  have much new to show the atmosphere is almost peaceful just two years later Putin reveals  Russia's latest weapons at a Moscow Air Show the   US Air Force Force gets an invite to see firsthand  the renewed strength and confidence of Russia's military Putin is massively rearming that  goes for Russia's nuclear Arsenal too Ukraine's President Putin's Ally  Leonid kuchma is reaching the end   of his term two men are competing to be his  successor Moscow loyalist Victor yanukovich   and opposition candidate Victor yusenko  yusenko has distanced himself from Moscow   he wants to lead Ukraine towards the  West he wants his country to join NATO Estonia lvia Lithuania Bulgaria Romania  Slovakia and Slovenia all recently joined   NATO from Russia's perspective Ukrainian  membership must be thwarted at all costs   that includes assassination unknown persons try  to poison pro-western candidate Victor Yenko   doctors in a specialist Vienna Clinic save his  life badly scarred he returns to the campaign in Kev by now this is known that this were  Russian operatives who were behind this   attempt and that they escaped back to Russia  and Russia of course refused to extradite them   Yenko gains a strong sympathy vote he wins the  election against yanukovich and against Moscow January 2005 the new Ukrainian president  is sworn in but his much vaunted orange   Revolution gets bogged down  Ukraine is still corrupt and polarized in February 2007   Putin travels to the European security conference  in Munich the tone of his speech is extremely blunt the West is ignoring Russia's interests  is this the New World Order he complains once   more about the broken promise not to expand  NATO eastwards he took his mask off and   and started to be angry and ugly but this goes  again with the KB training they are nice if   it's needed to be nice they are terrible if it's  needed to be terrible and they are dangerous and   ready to kill if it's demanded from them Putin  is most concerned about the alleged dangers to   Russia's security but in fact it's all about  the survival of his regime this secret group   photo from 2008 shows the top officials of  the FSB Russia's de facto rulers Security in   Russia is not defined as National Security  but the security of the regime everything   is seen through the lens of the security of  the regime of Putin and the people around him abazia and South otia two pro-russian  provinces of Georgia are fighting for their independence in August 2008 a Russian  army invades Georgia to help South   astia fight Georgian troops it's also  a demonstration of power aimed at NATO   which has long been eyeing Georgia  and Ukraine as future members of The Alliance they said both countries  will be NATO members one day but not   when it was clear to Russia's leaders  this must be hindered doesn't fit the   image of Russia as a great power  with spheres of influence that it controls once the war is over the Kremlin  recognizes abazia and South Atia as independent   states the same policy they'll later use in  Ukraine Russia's attack on Georgia is mainly   conducted through abkhazian and atian territory  this was the first time since the collapse of   the Soviet Union when Russian forces were used  abroad nothing happened West did not react to this   Invasion and for Putin this was an invitation to  to proceed th the limited International reaction   to the invasion of Georgia encourages Putin  to consider further expansion of his power by force after a few days Putin's Army withdraws  from Georgia losses are high an estimated 1500   deaths on either side Russians realized that  they may have won a quick victory in 5 days   but not because their forces were superior but  because they so far out their enemy they used   that as an excuse to carry out Military  reforms that had been sheld for a long time they massively reduce the number of  conscripts and start professionalizing the   Army there are still conscripts but the Army  is mainly career soldiers who can carry out   high-tech operations a lot of money is invested  in the Navy in the Air Force and in Special Ops after the Georgian War Russian military  expenditure increases from $51 billion   a year to more than 80 billion in  2013 and 2014 just before the attack   on Ukraine from 2008 to 2014 Russia's  Armed Forces became a central element   of foreign policy with talk of heavy metal  diplomacy coercive diplomacy using military means Russia invests in heavy metal a  modern Army for the conflicts of the 21st century and from 2007 Russia also practices cyber warfare when computer networks  in Estonia crash it's the first   known foreign deployment of Russia's cyber forces the enemy is the west and it must be fought  at every level that's not just an issue for   the Russian military but for the whole of Russian  Society so there are media offenses cyber warfare   and other new techniques that didn't play a role  in the Soviet Union's Wars or those of the zaris Empire and Putin also seeks the support of  the Russian Orthodox Church LED from 2009   by patriarch kill he is one of the chief  influencers for a revived greater Russian Empire patriarch kill talks of the so-called  Russian World which makes him more or less   the chief ideologue of Putin's regime the  concept goes well beyond Russia's current   political borders Ukraine is part of it  so is belus and so are the regions with   a high proportion of Russian speakers in  the Baltic states around krad and other places from 2013 Putin starts to claim these  countries as part of Russia's sphere of influence it's not about this or that region I  believe it's about Putin putting down markers   I'm against the West I have a different  system and I don't want to be bound up   in your world I'm creating another world even  if its economy and the size of its population   don't justify it Putin's Russia wants to  be a superpower on equal footing with the USA end of November 2013 demonstrations on  the maidan kev's Central Square Ukraine's   political self-image has shifted  away from Moscow towards the EU and NATO but Victor yusenko has been replaced as  Ukrainian president by Victor yanukovich the   puppet of the Kremlin rejects his  predecessors cooperation agreement   with the EU yanukovich and kage is pro  Moscow and against the EU Association   agreement the people of Kiev and the  Ukraine want to free themselves from   Moscow they know their country is imperfect  and corrupt but they want to go their own way as the weeks pass the protests on  the maidan grow young people occupy   the square day and night as if anticipating a  decisive battle for the future of their country the Russian leadership see this as a CIA plot a  conspiracy by Western States to surround Russia   with pro-western regimes whose final aim is  to force regime change in Russia nothing less   than the whole of Russia is at stake Putin  is in no doubt about that we don't believe   Ukraine belongs to the West Ukraine is Russian a  clear red line is being overstepped if you don't   understand that there will be War the war begins  on February the 18th 2014 snipers from Ukraine   Special Forces start to pick off demonstrators but  some of the insurgents are armed too and they fire back Putin was offering to yanukovich to use  force and that's why with some Russian help   some snipers uh started to shoot at the  crowd for the moment is it's very likely   that at that moment Russian security service  specialists were working as aan provocateurs   to stir up violence but it's also true  that weapons were used on the Ukrainian side more than 80 people die in the massacre  on the maida yanukovich calls fresh elections   to diffuse the conflict days later he  decamps to Russia and is relieved of office immediately after the shooting on the  maidan the Russian army occupies Ukraine's Crimea Putin uses the power vacuum left by Ukraine's  political u-turns to seize Crimea Crimea is   geost strategically significant and it's  important for propaganda and ideological   reasons too Crimea is the pearl of the Empire and  he gets it back Crimea has been Russian territory   since Catherine the Great's victory over the  Ottomans but in 1954 after after Stalin's   death then Soviet General Secretary Nikita  Kristof gifted Crimea to the Soviet Republic of Ukraine Russian soldiers with no Insignia on their   uniforms so-called green men  meet almost no resistance in Crimea there was no fighting for Crimea because   even ukrainians knew that crime  is a Russian territory I mean   it was just considered to be Ukrainian territory  by mistake that doesn't alter the fact that in   international law it was an illegal annexation the  Crimea is the territory of the sovereign state of Ukraine in Ukraine's donbas region pro-russian   separatists soon start shooting at  Ukrainian soldiers and militia men   Russia provokes skirmishes to extend  the territory held by Pro Moscow Fighters Russia occupies Crimea  in February 2014 at the same time   launching a proxy war against Ukraine in  the regions of luhansk and donet in the donbas prior to 2014 ukrainians didn't have  Army at all with the fighting which took place   later in spring and summer of 2014 in danas was  conducted mainly by volunteers who who actually   you know didn't know how to fight it once again  International reaction to the occupation of   Crimea and the war in donbas is muted the West  again allows Putin to believe he can pursue   expansionist policies without risk looking back  it should have been a much more robust response   to make it clear this annexation would carry  a far higher price price I would argue that if   those sanctions would be on the level which we  see now the invasion of February 22 would never happen the only notable Western reaction   came in President Barack Obama's  speech at a conference in the ha Russia is a regional power that is  threatening some of its immediate neighbors not out of strength but  out of weakness Putin's reply is a   huge parade bristling with military  hardware at the nighttime rehearsal   all the Weaponry the Army has to offer  crosses Red Square including ballistic missiles Aleppo in September 2015 the Russian  Air Force intervenes in Syria's Civil War it's a   great power gesture with devastating consequences  especially for the civilian population officially   the campaign is part of the international  struggle against Islamic fundamentalists   in reality Putin is also propping up the Assad  regime against armed opposition supported by the US the Russians used Syria first to bomb  their way back onto the international   stage and then to gain significance on  the international stage and of course   they also used it to test  their weapons and to gain experience Putin and his generals Follow The   Campaign on a giant screen he  allows Western cameras in to watch the whole world must see  how powerful Putin's Russia has become it's very clear this  is no longer just about Sy   it's about a confrontation with a heavily armed NATO the basic idea is to demonstrate  Russia's ability to fight a 21st century   war on the one hand a hybrid War but  also a great war against the West they inv in Syria the Russians deliberately  Target the civilian population this is   a war crime exactly as in Chia 20 years before if you look at Cha if you look at Georgia if  you look at Syria and also Ukraine in 2014 I   mean the the the way in which these military  attacks conflicts were were carried out with   utmost brutality uh should have been a  sign to all of us that this is not a man   who you're going to sit around a negotiating  table with because if he's capable of this   sort of thing he does not stand for the  sorts of values that we claim to stand for the provocations increase NATO awax monitor  more airspace infringements by Russian Fighters Russia stations new missiles  at kaliningrad directly on NATO's borders Russia's Hypersonic Avant guard missile  is a weapon for which there is supposedly no defense a great confrontation seems inevitable  Putin seeks Divine support in June 2020 he   consecrates a new cathedral dedicated to Russia's  military near Moscow there's a cathedral for the   Russian army with an illustrated historical record  linking past Wars including before 1917 with the   tasks awaiting the military the future there  are empty spaces for commemorations of future battles the church glamorizes war and  glorifies crimes like the bloody purges   under Stalin that claimed the lives of millions of Russians Putin his defense minister and patriarch   kill attend the consecration  construction cost more than 75 million a mural commemorating the  repatriation of the Crimea paying   homage to Putin and his cter is  still incomplete at the time of the consecration he wants to go down in  history as a figure like Peter the   Great or like Stalin for him his own ego  and his own individual importance in his   mythical idea of of the world world history  is more important than reality I very much   fear that is a Hitler in the bunker parallel  that he's just not going to be able to see a reality Russia wants its Empire back that's   been the goal of X KGB officer  Vladmir Putin for more than 20 years Kev February 24th 2022 Aid Sirens  Russia is attacking Ukraine in a fullscale   Invasion people try to find places of  safety there's Chaos on the roads and streets Putin calls it a SP  special military operation   for the liberation of Ukraine and he threatens the West this war is not about Ukraine  it's his major battle to to control the world it is Putin's thirdd war with severe Russian   losses from day one but in Russia's  Wars casualties have never counted

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Length: 51min 20sec (3080 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 12 2024