If the ruler of the Russian republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, had his way, the Russian army should march as far as East Germany. Image: IMAGO/ITAR-TASS / Yelena Afonina
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Ramzan Kadyrov is considered a close ally of Vladimir Putin. As ruler of the Russian republic of Chechnya, he stands side by side Russia.
Now he sends a clear threat Germany and to Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD).
Ramzan Kadyrov repeatedly attracts attention with verbal attacks, which he directs against NATO countries, for example.Image: IMAGO/ITAR-TASS/ Sipa USA
If Kadyrov had his way, the Russian army should invade East Germany. “We should go back there, it’s our territory,” he said in a broadcast on Monday interview the Rossiya-1 channel, the flagship of Russian state television.
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Kadyrov goes on to say that the Germans, as traitors, deserve punishment so that they understand their place. The withdrawal of Soviet troops from what is now East Germany in the 1990s was a wrong decision by the leadership at the time. And that should be his Opinion after being changed again. Now you have to slowly get back in there “so that we can control them at any time,” says Kadyrov.
Kadyrov shoots against Scholz: “soft as a panda”
In the propaganda interview, Putin’s accomplice also railed against German Chancellor Scholz. He visited the Russian President and said he was “soft as a panda bear”. Now he speaks from the lectern with hateful statements about Russia. Olaf Scholz should be “slapped in the face”, says Kadyrow.
Kadyrov described German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) as soft as a panda. Image: IMAGO/Future Image / F. Kern
But that is not all. Kadyrov causes a stir with another interview.
Kadyrov wants to get through to Poland
An adviser to Ukraine’s Interior Ministry, Anton Gerashchenko, shares a clip of another propaganda video made by Kadyrov. In it, the politician is absolutely convinced that Russia will take over the Ukrainian cities of Odessa, Kharkiv and Kiev. “We are showing results that the West, the NATO countries and the EU cannot even dream of,” Kadyrov told his confidants. He promises again: “We will break through and conquer Poland.”
Putin, on the other hand, is now putting his barking bloodhound Kadyrov on a tighter leash.
Apparently the Russian President has now prepared a gossip for the now and then overly loud Chechens: He appoints General Alexander Lapin as head of the Russian ground forces. He had snubbed Kadyrov in the past as a “failure”.
Commentators believe the move is less a promotion of Lapin and more an attempt to oust agitators like Kadyrov.
(With material from the dpa)
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