Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
Note that SMERSH was a Soviet era, post WWII counterintelligence agency established in 1944. The title of this Live Journal post is taken from the jumbotron, where a question to Putin is posed about reviving a counterintelligence agency, like SMERSH
[ColonelCassad] From Putin's latest statements.
Russia will not give up its sovereignty in exchange for sausage. Russia will either be a sovereign and self-sufficient power, or it will not exist at all. Western "recipes" will not work against Russia.
Russia will make all decisions itself. without tips from abroad. Russia has the right and vital need to be strong.
The scale of the historical tasks facing Russia requires the unity of all the patriotic forces of the country.
PS. The public break with the West continues. One of the voluntary or involuntary consequences of Putin’s rule over a long historical period will be the historical defeat of Westernism in Russia and its further marginalization. It's ironic that this is happening after decades of the "March to the West".
PS2. It was time to revive SMERSH in the spring of 2022.
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After the collapse of the USSR, the West wanted to destroy and subjugate Russia, Putin said
After the collapse of the USSR, Western countries wanted to destroy Russia. President Vladimir Putin announced this on December 17.
“After the collapse of the USSR, [the West] believed that we had to be patient a little, now we’ll completely collapse Russia. This is the largest country by European standards <…> not needed,” Putin said in an interview with journalist Pavel Zarubin. a>.
At the same time, as the Russian leader noted, the West wanted to subjugate the country and use its resources.
So, as the famous politician in the USA proposed Zbigniew Brzezinski to divide Russia into five parts. He proposed to subordinate these parts separately and use its resources. Provided that all of them individually will not have the weight and ability to defend interests, as the unified Russian state does, Putin explained.
As reported by IA Regnum, in March, the Russian President said that geopolitical interests were more important for the West than the elimination of ideological contradictions associated with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Putin noted that after the collapse of the USSR, it seemed that the ideological basis for the confrontation between Russia and the West had disappeared, but this was not the case. As the head of state explained, modern problems in the world began after the collapse of the USSR, since the structure of the world was determined by the results of the Second World War. Putin then added thatThe West was trying to rock post-Soviet Russia.