DISINFO: In its history, Russia has never attacked Europe

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DISINFO: In its history, Russia has never attacked Europe

SUMMARY

In its history, Russia has never attacked Europe. On the contrary, two of the deadliest wars in Russia were caused by European attacks (those of Napoleon and Hitler). This is why talking about a “threat from the East” is a fabrication of the current European ruling class.

RESPONSE

Soviet Russia attacked Poland following Nazi Germany in 1939. It attacked Finland in 1939, before its troops annexed the Baltic states in 1939-1940 and suppressed anti-Soviet uprisings in Berlin in 1953, in Hungary in 1956 and in Czechoslovakia in 1968. In December 1979, Soviet forces invaded Ukraine. As for post-Soviet Russia, it attacked Georgia in 2008, annexed Crimea in 2014, and Russia's troops are currently in the East of Ukraine.

Disclaimer

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