Nicolai Lilin and the inconvenient truth about the poll showing that the citizens of Russia are with Putin. Guest on the April 2 episode of L’Aria che Tira, a La7 talk show hosted by Myrta Merlino, the writer of Siberian origin points to the contradictions of Europeans in dealing with the war in Ukraine: “We westerners always have a hard time understanding what is happening in Russia, we easily get caught up in the fact that the students of a university are taking a stand, the demonstrations… Dear friends, the reality is that 83% of the Russians today support the President Vladimir Putin … Students, dissidents and demonstrators are pacifists and fortunately they exist, I am very glad that in my country of origin there is still the strength of dissidents and pacifists, on which we westerners could learn to depend, with a Dissidence against the political power that oppresses us The reality of the facts is that Russia, a country made up mostly of suburbs and provinces, is 83% with Putin.
“The soldiers and military personnel fighting in Ukraine, the author emphasizes, “do not come from the families of the dissidents, but from the people who support Putin. This is the real Russia that we don’t want to see, that we’ve vilified for years because we only built relationships with intellectuals and dissidents, the ones we liked. But we must not talk about what pleases us, we must concludes Lilin look at the reality of the facts and build our diplomatic initiative on that basis.