{"id":64932,"date":"2023-02-02T16:24:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T21:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64932"},"modified":"2023-02-02T16:24:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T21:24:58","slug":"long-after-wwii-russia-once-again-threatened-with-german-tanks-with-crosses-on-them-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=64932","title":{"rendered":"Long After WWII, Russia Once Again Threatened With German Tanks “With Crosses On Them”: Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Long After WWII, Russia Once Again Threatened With German Tanks “With Crosses On Them”: Putin<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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On Thursday\u00a0Russian President Vladimir Putin attended events marking the 80th anniversary of the battle of Stalingrad, and in his speech hailing Russia\u2019s historic victory against Nazi Germany in World War II, he didn’t hold back, lashing out against Berlin’s contemporary decision-making regarding the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n

“Unbelievable, but it is a fact: we are once again being threatened with German tanks \u2013 Leopards \u2013 that have crosses [painted] on their sides,”<\/strong>\u00a0Putin said in a provocative statement that evoked Nazi invasion imagery.<\/p>\n

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Sputnik, Kremlin Pool via AP<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Those who expect to win on the battlefield apparently do not understand that\u00a0a modern war with Russia will be utterly different for them<\/strong>. We are not the ones sending our tanks to their borders,” Putin added while saying Russia is sure in its victory, and ominously warning that “we will deploy more than just tanks”.<\/p>\n

“These powers which try to wage an undeclared war against Russia will receive a tough response to their actions,” the president remarked, according to\u00a0state media translation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The city where the memorial ceremony took place has since 1961 been called\u00a0Volgograd, a change that occurred during the de-Stalinization\u00a0process<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Putin had earlier laid flowers at the eternal flame on Mamayev Kurgan, a hillside where much of the fighting took place that now hosts the “Battle of Stalingrad” museum complex and the city’s famous statue “The Motherland Calls.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The crucial battle of\u00a0August 1942 to February 1943 was key in ultimately deciding the outcome of WWII, given it ended with Hitler’s 6th Army surrendering, and marked the first devastating capitulation for Berlin, setting the stage for an allied victory by May 1945. But in total\u00a0an estimated 2 million German and Soviet soldiers and civilians<\/strong>\u00a0died<\/strong>\u00a0in a mere 6 months of fighting.<\/p>\n

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Long After WWII, Russia Once Again Threatened With German Tanks “With Crosses On Them”: Putin On Thursday\u00a0Russian President Vladimir Putin attended events marking the 80th anniversary of the battle of Stalingrad, and in his speech hailing Russia\u2019s historic victory against Nazi Germany in World War II, he didn’t hold back, lashing out against Berlin’s contemporary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[281,33662,359,694,821,862,891,1823,4318],"class_list":["post-64932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-europe","tag-german-tanks","tag-germany","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war","tag-world-war","tag-world-war-3","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64933,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64932\/revisions\/64933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}