Belgian media defined today as a lie the statement of Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with young people in Sochi, at which he stated that Belgium exists today thanks to Russia, BTA reported. Putin is rewriting history, it is a falsification, says the assessment in the Belgian media, and a comparison is made with the interpretations of the Russian head of state regarding the history of Ukraine.
It is added that Putin did not provide grounds for his claims. It is explained that historical documents indicate otherwise – the Russian Emperor Nicholas I in 1830 perceived Belgium’s desire to separate itself as an independent state as a threat to the European order agreed at the Congress of Vienna after the Napoleonic Wars. The emperor intended to send military reinforcements to King Willem I of the Netherlands to quell the rebellion in the then southern provinces of his kingdom. Due to the simultaneous uprising in Poland against the Russian Empire, the Russian troops did not reach the western parts of Europe.
This is not Putin’s first abuse of history, the media write. It is noted that three days before he invaded Ukraine in 2022, Putin had widely presented his reading of history, according to which “Ukraine was entirely created by Russia.”
Bulgaria, on the other hand, was affected by his statement that the Cyrillic alphabet came to Russia “from the Macedonian lands”.
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2024-03-08 02:13:16
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