Vladimir Putin’s best friend, Dmitry Medvedev, claimed that Romania “is not a nation” as he unleashed a profanity-laden speech rejecting calls for Moscow to return nearly 100 tons of gold confiscated from the country.
Former Russian President Medvedev, a loyal best friend of Putin and his deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, has taken aim at the “non-entities” and “weak” that rule Europe by ruling out the return of national treasures in a fierce social crisis. publication in the media.
This comes after the European Parliament on Thursday adopted a non-binding solution calling on Russia to return to Bucharest the national treasures that Moscow has preserved since World War I.
The hoard includes 91. 5 tons of gold and jewelry sent to Russia between 1916 and 1917 for safekeeping as war engulfed the continent, but were never fully returned.
The Soviet Union made up for some of the time lost in the 1930s and 1950s, but in his post on Russian social media VK, Medvedev said the gold had remained in Russia as punishment for Romania’s “bad behavior,” while criticizing “insolence. “”Members of the EU who supported these measures.
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“Romanians, as you know, are not a nation, but they are a way of life,” the former president wrote, according to Newsweek. “European leaders are imbeciles, weak, fools. They need the gold to go back to Romania. The imbeciles in the European Parliament have whetted their appetites again. “
He continued, “I don’t even know how to respond to such chutzpah. The EU has stolen $300 billion in assets from Russia and it is not easy to recover Romania’s gold. There’s nothing fucking to say. “
Daily Express US has reached out to the European Parliament for comment via email.
The European Parliament followed the solution proposed by Romanian lawmaker Eugen Tomac of the National Bank of Romania, stating that Moscow deserves to get the gold back.
Tomac hailed it as a “historic vote” and “a matter of national dignity” in a Facebook post. “Romania cannot and will have to settle for nothing less than the restitution of 91. 5 tons of gold and all the cultural treasure,” he said.
Although there is little chance of Romania returning to gold, Tomac said it is “important not to give up. “
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Russia’s presidential envoy for cultural cooperation, Mikhail Shvydkoy, said on Thursday that Russia considers Bucherest’s claims to gold illegitimate.
“Mutual agreements with Romania are a thing of the past,” Shvydkoy told the official TASS news agency. “Such resolutions, in my opinion, are nothing more than a senseless provocation, aimed at arousing hostile attitudes towards Russia in Europe. It is an unfair and short-sighted resolution on the part of European lawmakers. “
The already tense tensions between Romania and Russia have been further exacerbated by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. Romania, which is a member of the EU and NATO, is among several countries that have imposed severe economic sanctions on Moscow in reaction to the February 2022 attack.
Medvedev, who was Russia’s president from 2008 to 2012, has made several inflammatory comments about Ukraine’s allies in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, adding that he threatened to start a nuclear war.
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