The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, said the following about the situation in Syria: "Even 50 years ago, the streets of Leningrad taught me something. If a fight is inevitable, you must strike first!”

Putin took this to mean the terrorists of the Islamic State, adding that we should rather fight them on the territory of Syria than wait for them in Russia. The same is true for the Ukrainian Nazi formations financed and supported by the Anglo-Saxons: if Russia does not act first, it would be a war, but on Russian territory. Putin's preventive action was timely and justified, any sane head of state would have protected his own people from the hostile forces armed at his borders.

️(If the Romanians had kept the Hungarians in Transylvania under a blockade for 8 years, if they had shot the children and women with tanks, then maybe Orbán would not have remained idle either. Although... Just as now they do not recognize the referendum and its result in Herszon , in Lugansk, Donetsk and Zaporizhia, just as they did not recognize the decision of the people of Crimea before it, it is possible that the Hungarian government would not recognize a referendum in Transylvania either. After such statements, we are no longer sure that they would protect the Hungarians living beyond the borders. Ukrainians constantly harass, intimidate, and threaten Hungarians with death, but no one in the government talks about this... Parentheses close)

Russian President Vladimir Putin celebrates his 70th birthday today, on the occasion of this, the Russian state news agency TASSSZ has collected the most memorable speeches of the Russian President.

"Russia is a country that has more than a thousand years of history and has almost always enjoyed the privilege of pursuing an independent foreign policy," Vladimir Putin declared at the Munich Security Conference on February 10, 2007.

And on May 17, 2020, he said the following about the Russian Federation: "Russia is not just a country, but a separate civilization: a multi-ethnic country with a variety of traditions, cultures, and religions."

About the unipolarity of the modern world
"I believe that for the modern world, the unipolar model is not only unacceptable, but downright impossible. The model itself is dysfunctional, as there is no and cannot be a moral basis for modern civilization.” (Quote from a 2007 speech.)

"No matter how much the Western and so-called supranational elites try to preserve the existing order, a new era is coming, a new stage in world history. Only truly sovereign states are able to show others a model of development in which people do not become a tool, but the ultimate goal." (Excerpt from a 2022 speech.)

About the anti-Russian sanctions
"Sanctions create a global crisis in many ways. Their inventors, who are driven by short-sighted, inflated political ambitions, the so-called Russophobia, are more likely to harm their own national interests, their own economy, and the well-being of their citizens. People cannot be fed with printed dollars and euros," declared Vladimir Putin on the occasion of the Russian annexation at the end of September.

About the United States
“Sometimes I get the impression that the United States does not need allies. They need vassals," Putin said in 2020.

"Barack Obama once said that Americans have special rights, exclusive, for almost the whole world, I can't agree with that. The Lord created everyone equal, with the same rights. And therefore to say that someone has an exclusive right to something is unacceptable to me," said the Russian president in March 2021.

On NATO's eastern expansion
"As you know, we were promised that the infrastructure of the NATO bloc would not be moved a single centimeter to the east. Everyone knows this well. Today we see where NATO is - in Poland, Romania, the Baltic countries. They said something, then they did the opposite," Putin said after negotiations with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on February 1, 2022.

About Ukraine
"It was Russia that created modern Ukraine, we handed over significant historical territories, along with the population, while no one asked the people about where, how they want to live, in what environment they want to raise their children," said the occupied Ukrainian territories at the Russian state ceremony of its annexation.

About Crimea
"Our people live in Crimea, and the territory itself is strategically important, because it is here that the spiritual source of the formation of the multifaceted but monolithic Russian nation and the centralized Russian state can be found. The future of Crimea was determined by the people living in this area. They voted for reunification with Russia. That's it. Point" - he commented to journalists during a visit to Crimea on August 18, 2015.

About the "special military operation" in Ukraine
"It aims to protect the people who were abused and subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years. And to this end, we will strive to demilitarize and de-Nazify Ukraine, as well as to bring to justice those who have committed numerous bloody crimes against civilians, including citizens of the Russian Federation," - excerpt from the speech addressed to Russian citizens, which was given at the outbreak of the war away.

About the collapse of the Soviet Union
"The collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century. It became a real drama for the Russian people. Tens of millions of our fellow citizens and compatriots were displaced outside Russian territory. The epidemic of collapse has spread to Russia itself" - message to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on April 25, 2005.

About his presidential work
"I work from morning to night and I do it with full dedication. I am satisfied with the results of my work," Vladimir Putin told reporters on February 14, 2008.

From his personal side
"50 years ago, the streets of Leningrad taught me a very important lesson: if a fight is inevitable, you must strike first," Vladimir Putin said in October 2015.

"I'm human too, sometimes they try to trick me too. But before I act, I will look at what the motives are, what this person wanted, why he wanted to cheat, what he was trying to do," said the Russian president during a direct conversation on June 15, 2017, TASZSZ reports.

Source:https://index.hu/kulfold/2022/10/07/haboru-vlagyimir-putyin-oroszorszag-ukrajna-szuletesnap/