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Putin compares his actions to Peter the Great’s conquests
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MOSCOW, 10 June 2022, (TON): Russian President Vladimir Putin compared his current actions to Peter the Great’s conquest of the Baltic coast during his 18th-century war against Sweden.
After visiting an exhibition in Moscow dedicated to the 350th birthday of tsar Peter the Great, Putin told a group of young entrepreneurs that you get the impression that by fighting Sweden he was grabbing something. He wasn’t taking anything, he was taking it back.
Putin said “when Peter the Great founded Saint Petersburg and declared it the Russian capital none of the countries in Europe recognized this territory as belonging to Russia.”
The Russian leader added “everyone considered it to be part of Sweden. But from time immemorial, Slavs had lived there alongside Finno-Ugric peoples.”
Putin said “it is our responsibility also to take back and strengthen.”
He said “yes, there have been times in our country’s history when we have been forced to retreat, but only to regain our strength and move forward.”
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