“Previous elections were falsified in the states. Voting by mail. Well, it is clear what voting by mail is. They bought ballots for 10 dollars each, recorded them and threw them into mailboxes without any monitoring by observers, and through,” Putin said during a meeting with the heads of municipal formations at the All-Russian Municipal Forum “Small Motherland – The Power of Russia”, effectively accusing US President Joe Biden of illegally occupying the White House.
10 dollars in Putin’s lexicon is not accidental. When the Russian nuclear submarine “Kursk” sank in the Barents Sea on August 12, 2000, taking the lives of all 118 crew members, Putin, who had recently been elected president of Russia, did not interrupt his vacation in Sochi, did not organize the rescue of the sailors in time, and refused the help offered by the West. At that time, he called the sailors’ widows, who demanded the punishment of the guilty army commanders, and criticized the authorities for not providing help in time, as “scumbags specially bought for 10 dollars to discredit me”. His cynical smile, with the phrase “She sank”, in response to the question of the famous American interviewer Larry King, what happened to “Kursk”, went down in history.
At that time, total media censorship did not yet exist in Russia, and, for example, the First Channel and NTV allowed themselves to publish material unflattering to Putin. “He called Channel One and said that Channel One had hired maukas to come forward to discredit him. Among other things, I later proved to him that they were not maukas, but officers’ widows. They are really widows of officers, I later saw them myself in Vidyayev, and they continued to say uncomfortable things, but he immediately called back on the phone and said: “You specially hire maukas. You gave them 10 dollars each to specifically discredit me,” Sergej Dorenko, the star of the First Channel at the time, said later.
As for falsifying the results of the presidential election, the former US President Donald Trump has been singing this same tune since 2020. Interestingly, during the vote count, his activists appeared to simultaneously call for the count to stop in Michigan, where Trump was still leading at the time, and to call for the count to continue in Arizona, where Trump was still behind. As a result, Trump lost both states.
2024-01-16 22:41:04
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