Vladimir Solovyov, a friend of Putin, is one of the most famous TV faces in Russia. Numerous Russians watch his political talk – including verbal hate speech.
Moscow – “Sunday evening with Vladimir Solovyov” is the name of a political talk show on Russian state television – but it is obviously not differentiated and balanced there. “Germany is the ultimate evil,” roared the moderator of the same name on his show. He has “a great hatred of Scholz and all political Nazis”. That reports the Bild.
The background, of course, was the Ukraine war. Solovyov’s hatred of Germany became apparent as early as June. Moderator Solovyov called Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) a “moth” – because of the German arms deliveries to Kyiv. “It was not Putin who made the fatal mistake, but Gorbachev when he allowed the reunification of Germany – and Stalin when he decided that Germany could continue to exist,” he quoted Spiegel the 58-year-old on.
The dpa correspondent Hannah Wagner was appalled by Solojov’s “political talk”. In a May show, he aped Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and then mocked Ukrainian soldiers captured at the Azov Steelworks, she reported. Kremlin boss Vladimir Putin did not even begrudge them a hero’s death, Solojow scoffed. And the invited RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonian only commented: “They surrendered because they are Nazis.” It’s no wonder that critics see Soloyov as one of the Kremlin’s most important propagandists.
