Drawing parallels with second world war, Putin said: ‘A modern war with Russia will be completely different’
“Readiness to go until the end, to do the impossible for the sake of the motherland, for the sake of truth was and is in the blood, in the character of our multinational people,” he said.
The Red Army’s victory marked a turning point not only for the Soviet Union, which had suffered several heavy defeats, but also for the allied forces., bolstered by tens of thousands of army reservists mobilised last autumn.Moscow recently announced the capture ofas it seeks to wrest control of the entirety of Donetsk – a region it claims to have annexed.
Nostalgic for the superpower status of the USSR, many Russian officials have been promoting Stalin as a tough leader who led the Soviet Union to victory in the second world war and presided over the country’s industrialisation.
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