It is not the first time Russia’s leadership has referenced the cleansing or purging of society, while also vowing to “de-Nazify” Ukraine.
by AFP | January 18, 2024, 2:44 pm
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov delivers his annual end-of-year press conference at the Russian Foreign Ministry headquarters in Moscow on January 18, 2024. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday that Moscow’s large-scale military intervention against Ukraine had “cleansed” Russian society, after thousands fled the country or were detained after fighting broke out.
Since the Kremlin ordered troops into Ukraine in February 2022, officials in Moscow have repeatedly branded as “traitors” Russians who left the country to escape a sweeping mobilisation drive or for political reasons.
“The special military operation has united our society like never before and contributed to the cleansing of people who do not feel they belong to Russian history and culture,” Lavrov said during a press conference.
“Some of those have left, some have stayed but have started to think,” he added.
Tens of thousands of Russians left the country in protest at the start of the conflict, with thousands more leaving after the Kremlin announced it would mobilise hundreds of thousands of Russian men.
Moscow has also orchestrated a far-reaching crackdown on dissent, banning criticism of the military campaign and punishing thousands for publicly denouncing it.
It is not the first time Russia’s leadership has referenced the cleansing or purging of society, while also vowing to “de-Nazify” Ukraine.
In March 2022, President Vladimir Putin said: “I am certain that such a pure and necessary self-cleaning of society will only strengthen our country.”
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In March 2022, President Vladimir Putin said: “I am certain that such a pure and necessary self-cleaning of society will only strengthen our country.”
Hitler: Is there no copyright on my ideas, sentences and speeches?
putler: ‘If you read my book you’ll see I said it first you fucking nazi.’
Russia is cleansed from handicapt people, alcoholici, rapists, murderers, thieves…………………in that way yes…….all to the front.
KGB and head nazi Laughrov admits to ethnic cleansing but STILL the UN and ICC see no signs of genocide.
Mafia land is far, far from being cleansed. There’s still the roach leadership in the kremlin, the oligarchs, the scientists helping mafia land to commit genocide, the entire roach army, and the majority of the population that support the fascist crime syndicate, and others.
The only ones that left the country are the smart ones, the dumbasses stayed behind. You certainly can’t run a country with idiots.
Maybe that’s what the horse really meant by the country’s been cleansed. Cleansed of intelligence.
Yeah Lavrov. You cleansed muscovy of prison trash and ethnic minorities. Genocide of orcs is still genocide.
“The special military operation has united our society like never before and contributed to the cleansing of people who do not feel they belong to Russian history and culture,” Lavrov
“…Lavrov pleaded with me to give a Russian oligarch a US visa for his wife so she could give birth to their child in the US and get US citizenship.” McFaul
Cleaning in Orcland is above all relative and variable geometry…