More than a year after the start of the war against Ukraine, former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev resorted to a sensational method of increasing domestic weapons production.
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In front of representatives of a national armaments commission, the 57-year-old politician quoted Soviet dictator Josef Stalin (1879-1953), as shown in one of several videos that Medvedev himself posted on social media on Thursday night and Friday morning. -fair. . Medvedev is considered an ardent supporter of Russia’s brutal war of aggression against its neighboring country.
In the video, he can be heard sitting at the head of a long table reading a World War II-era telegram from Stalin asking a factory in the city of Chelyabinsk to produce tank parts on time.
“I want you to listen and remember the Generalissimo’s words.”
Medvedev before representatives of a national armaments commission
“If in a few days you violate your duty to the Motherland, I will begin to beat you like criminals,” the 1941 letter continued. Then Medvedev, who is now deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, told the group: ” Colleagues, I want you to listen to me and remember the words of the Generalissimo.”
Medvedev later published excerpts from an interview with Russian journalists. In it, he once again asserted that Russia was not really fighting Ukraine, but the whole of NATO. As for the war in Ukraine, Medvedev does not rule out advancing Russian troops to Kiev or Lviv.
“Nothing can be ruled out here. If you need to go to Kiev then you need to go to Kiev, if to Lviv then you need to go to Lviv to destroy this infection,” he was quoted as saying by the Ria Novosti news agency.
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Medvedev’s martial words could also be heard beforehand. In response to President Vladimir Putin’s international arrest warrant, the former Kremlin chief threatened in an interview published on Thursday that he would send missiles to Berlin if Putin was arrested in Germany. (dpa/Portal/tsp)
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