What They Say Putin Said

The current year started with a prominent interview of Vladimir Putin to the German Bild. He spoke to German journalists on January 5.

Here goes the "original" German version. Why did I put the word 'original' in the quotation marks? The answer is pretty simple: it is a German text; that means, a translation of the words our president said to the interviewing staff in Russian.

For those of you, who do not speak or even understand German, the title goes: "Why Did Putin Frighten Merkel With His Dog". And the subtitle below: "Vladimir Putin explains his world: the NATO is agressive, Merkel is earnest, and the Russian Crimea is a God's justice".

You like it or not, that's what the Bild wrote in German.

Being a major German paper, they published the English translation of the interview as well. Here it is.

A Good Question

... Vladimir Pution asked at the UN General Assembly:

As for me, I am sure they do; equally sure am I they will never admit it.

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Auschwitz 1945--2015

Some thoughts on the coming 70th anniversary of the Konzentrationslager Auschwitz liberation by the Red Army on January 27. By the way, in 2005 the UN designated the date to be the International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Just imagine.

Some Jews come there. They see there some Germans, some Ukrainians, some Latvians, some Lithuanians...

Just like then.

What makes the difference is that there are no Russians coming on January 27.

Well, entities must not be multiplied beyond the necessity, but...


Thanks to zubkoff for the idea and kukufffka for the image.

Merkel on Anti-Semitism

Though the year has just started, that Angela Merkel said at the Bundestag on January 15 has all chances to be the slip of the tongue of the year No.1.

Antisemitismus ist unsere staatliche und bürgerliche Pflicht.

Yes, it means exactly the following:

Anti-Semitism is our national and civic duty.

Nothing more, nothing less

No one doubts it was a mere slip of the tongue. Everyone can make one from time to time.

The only question is: was it a Freud-style slip?

Frau Merkel Tries to Lecture Russia

Die Welt has recently published a hu-u-uge interview with Angela Merkel titled "Will You Conduct a War Against Russia, Mrs Merkel?"

My knowledge of German is good enough to read and understand it.

Frau Merkel tries to seem a strong leader of a major European state and economy, acting on her own and to the benefit of the state she leads. She tries to give names to things and to lecture Russia how our Motherland should behave.

Yet in fact Merkel acts like a puppet. Evidently, because she is one — in the hands of great master of puppets, namely Mr. President of the USA. Asking her to wake up is totally useless; puppets just cannot do another way.

By the way, recently the Germans celebrated the 25th anniversary of destruction of the Berlin wall. Not an official word of thanks to Russia! Seems they forget the one single reason for the wall to be broken. It was broken not just because President Reagan wanted it and verbally encouraged Germans to do so.

We, the great Soviet Union through the lousy mouth of Gorbachev allowed them, that's why.

If they are so quick to forget what happened 25 years ago, how can we hope they remember the Helsinki Act of 1975, let alone the lessons of the WW2?

By the way, let's leave these puppets Germans alone; whether you are in the US or Europe or somewhere else, do you remember these things or know what they were about?