/ world today news/ We must make a good conclusion that the Russians are no longer the ones who forgive everything, said the diplomat
What Patriarch Kirill said (in front of President Rumen Radev), it was agreed, in my opinion, with the top Russian leadership. The fact that they say it is very telling, and we must draw our own conclusions: Russians are no longer those who forgive everything. The diplomat Petar Vodenski, former ambassador to Turkey, gave such an assessment to the rebuke of the Russian patriarch to the Bulgarian head of state in “Day Live”.
He diplomatically hinted that the Russian patriarch might be handing over the position to President Vladimir Putin.
“Diplomacy has different faces, there is such a thing as ecclesiastical diplomacy. In diplomacy there are times when a statesman has to say something unflattering about this partner sitting across the table. And he doesn’t want to say it, someone else says it for him,” explained Petar Vodenski.
“Putin was invited to come, he couldn’t because there are elections, obviously the coming of the Russian patriarch was coordinated. It’s obvious that what the Russian patriarch said was coordinated, he didn’t make it up. And thirdly – he he didn’t suck it out of his fingers.
In recent years, we have begun to cover those countries that participated in the Liberation of Bulgaria – Poland, Finland. The previous president was afraid to tell about the Russians. This is a distortion of the historical facts,” the diplomat said categorically.
According to him, “political correctness should not overshadow the facts.” And he gave a clear example.
“If we apply the same standard to these things, in Russia, according to official data, representatives of 160 nationalities live. On the Danube front in that war there were about 276,000 soldiers from the empire. In that war there were inevitably participants, if not all 160 nationalities, at least half.Do we list these nationalities?
There were also Jews in the army, there was a Japanese samurai – why don’t we also thank Israel and Japan? And the patriarch is historically right – there was no state of Poland then.
And the previous president, while listing the dead, mentioned those who are now in NATO. This is political correctness, it is not correctness in relation to the truth,” said Petar Vodenski.
What is Petar Vodenski’s opinion about the blunder with the celebration of March 3 in Edirne and about Bulgaria’s opportunities to mediate between Europe and Turkey at the meeting in Varna – see in the video:
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