Former Adviser Says Putin Wants to Re-Unite Soviet Union
19 October 2018 20:39 WIB
TEMPO.CO, Moscow - A former advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin informed a Swedish newspaper that his old boss will do his best to take back territories previously held by the Soviet Union and its monarchist predecessor.
Andrej Illarionov, Putin's chief economic adviser from 2000 to 2005, said that Putin is planning to take back Finland, Belarus, parts of Georgia and the Baltic states.
"The Western leaders seem, from what they say, to have forgotten that there are some leaders in the world who want to conquer other countries," said Illarionov, who now works for a Washington think-tank.
This would be a slow process, he said, but the West should be ready to combat it.
"We must offer resistance by all means available," he said. "I'm not a bloodthirsty person, but there is sometimes no other way than military power to stop an opponent."
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