On Sunday, a member of the Russian parliament called on the United States to make reparations, including the return of historic settlements in Alaska and California, due to the West’s extensive economic sanctions.
The Kremlin has flooded the airwaves of its state-run channels with propaganda that paints a very different picture than reality and protects the Russian people from the horrors of Vladimir Putin’s bloody invasion of Ukraine, the Daily Beast first reported.
Moscow broadcasters and broadcasters have also begun to endorse the idea of publicly hanging Ukrainians who oppose Russia, which the Kremlin has reportedly already been mulling over, according to Bloomberg.
Putin’s “political technologist” State Duma deputy Oleg Matveychev appeared on Russian state news Sunday, laying out a series of demands for Washington and Kiev “after the completion of the demilitarization of Ukraine.”
It comes Tuesday when Russian and Ukrainian officials meet for another round of peace talks.
“We must think about repairing the damage caused by the sanctions and the war itself, because this also costs money, and we must return it,” Matveychev said on the Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov program.
He continued: “The return of all Russian property, the property of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and present-day Russia, which was seized in the United States, and so on.”
Kremlin “political strategist” Oleg Matveychev shared on Russian state television a list of demands “after the completion of the demilitarization of Ukraine”
A view of the destruction following Russian attacks in Kyiv, Ukraine on March 15. On Sunday, a member of the Russian Duma listed a series of demands on Ukraine and the United States “after the completion of the demilitarization of Ukraine.”
People take pictures of the destruction following the Russian attacks in Kyiv, Ukraine on March 15. Russian state television has in recent days normalized the idea of public hangings for Ukrainians resisting Russia’s invasion.
Solovyov asked if the deputy was specifically referring to Alaska and the former Russian settlement of Fort Ross in California.
“That was my next item. Like Antarctica,” Matveychev said. We found it, so it belongs to us.
The first Russian colony in Alaska was founded in 1784 and was named the Bay of Three Saints. Thus arose the Russian-American Company, a trading monopoly established by Tsar Paul I in 1799, which contributed to the expansion of the Empire in North America.
Alaska was sold to the US in 1867 during the presidency of Andrew Johnson for $7.2 million, which would be approximately $144.4 million in 2021.
The Russian-American Company built Fort Ross less than three hours from present-day San Francisco in 1812. In 1841 the settlement was sold into private hands.
On Sunday, Matveychev appeared to dismiss the idea of using nuclear weapons to achieve victory, stating: “Why? We can take them off without him.
However, host Soloviev, whose two Italian villas were recently confiscated amid a flurry of sanctions, called for executions or even nuclear strikes against “those who took our money.”
Russia controlled several settlements in North America during the 19th century, among the two most famous of which were California’s Fort Ross and various colonies in Alaska.
“I still think that those who have taken our money should be told: you have 24 hours to unfreeze our funds, otherwise we will send you what you know we have. Your choice. Tactical or strategic, take your pick. You took our money, you are thieves, our conversation is short: a bullet in the head,” he said.
Earlier Sunday, Matveychev set the stage for a crackdown on Ukrainians resisting Russia’s invasion.
After Tucker Carlson’s video from Fox News, Matveychev lashed out at the US: “There is no country in the world that is as easy to manipulate as America.”
“This is what will be on the table after our victory … we will raise the stakes,” he promised.
Matveychev began his list by “dissolving NATO”, adding that “NATO’s presence in some countries hinders us.”
This was followed by the “extradition of all war criminals”, including Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, former President Petro Poroshenko and former Deputy Interior Minister of Ukraine Anton Gerashchenko.
A Russian state television host has called for military tribunals and the subsequent hanging of Ukrainians who oppose Moscow’s invasion.
Experts on Russian state television advocate the introduction of public hangings in Ukraine after the establishment of Russian domination. If you speak Russian, here is one example (look). Other experts later agreed, one of them noting that the DNR/LNR constitution conveniently allows the death penalty. pic.twitter.com/zCe3PfFhVM
— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) March 13, 2022
He also called for the extradition of Grigory Rodchenkov, the former head of the Russian state doping program, who spoke about the operation in a high-profile interview with the New York Times in 2016. Rodchenkov is reportedly living under witness protection in the United States.
Another Kremlin-controlled Sunday news show, Vesti Nedeli or Novosti Nedeli, aired a story titled “Denazification of Ukraine – New Opportunities for Growth,” which showed footage of public executions of German Nazis in 1946 on Kiev’s Independence Square.
A Russian TV presenter called for military tribunals followed by public hangings of pro-Ukrainian militants in his cities in a TV spot tweeted Sunday by a Daily Beast reporter.
On Thursday, a political science expert from Moscow said that when Ukrainian citizens are executed by hanging, “morality should not get in the way.”
“Never let morality stop you from doing the right thing. I understand the importance of the humanitarian component,” she said.