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Kursk submarine song2/18/2024 ![]() However, it is instructive to watch him at meetings like this, which provide a window onto the sort of information he consumes. It would be an error to assume that Putin has completely abandoned rational thought. This means he did not live his life in vain,” he said to one of the mothers. And then they got away and lived, or did not live, imperceptibly. How they get away from vodka, or something. The question is how we live… after all, how some people live or don’t live, it’s not clear. “We are all mortal, we all live beneath God and at some point we will all leave this world. Then he embarked on a long, strange discussion about why we should be proud of the dead. First, he told the assembled mothers that Ukrainians were Nazis because they kill mobilized Russians soldiers who did not wish to serve on the front line. She told Putin that her son’s last words were: “Let’s go, lads, let’s crop some dill” (in this context, “dill” is an insulting nickname for Ukrainians). Pshenchkina later became a member of the Public Chamber of the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic and has attended almost every official funeral and official celebration. It was given by Nina Pshenichkina, a woman from Ukraine’s Luhansk Region whose son was killed in 2019. The most striking speech at the event was close to parody.At least half of those at the meeting turned out to be activists from the ruling United Russia party and members of pro-Kremlin organizations. The Kremlin carefully selected the soldiers’ mothers who were invited to attend. This time, of course, there were no surprises.Presenter Sergei Dorenko subsequently claimed that, after the broadcast, Putin called the channel and yelled that the widows were not genuine and that Berezovsky’s colleagues “hired whores for $10.” Ever since that encounter, the Russian president has avoided in-person meetings, favoring stage-managed gatherings with hand-picked members of the public. ![]() ![]() The transcript of the meeting immediately appeared in the press and a recording was played on Channel One, which was then owned by Kremlin eminence grise Boris Berezovsky. In August 2000, the inexperienced president was subjected to a grilling by the wives and mothers of sailors who died in the Kursk submarine disaster.
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