LETTER: Russophobia sticks out a mile
Article is another mishmash of anti-Russian fakes and innuendos
Gerrit Olivier’s article refers (“An invisible enemy could scupper Putin’s constitutional coup plans (../bd/opinion/an-invisible-enemy-could-scupper-putins-constitutional-coup-plans/)”, June 11). What can we say? Another mishmash of anti-Russian fakes and innuendos.
The main idea of the article, as far as we understand, is that President Vladimir Putin allegedly self-isolated from resolving the Covid-19 crisis, and that it could ruin his “plans to stay in power”. As usual, no arguments provided. Instead, readers are left with stories about “practices of the Soviet past” (Stalin’s disappearance “at the onset” of World War 2) and “general” Mikhail Kutuzov’s escape “into the Russian tundra” in 1812...
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