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Putin will stick to his world war two narrative – it’s all he’s got left

4 February 2023

9:36 PM

4 February 2023

9:36 PM

‘It’s unbelievable but true,’ Vladmir Putin said on the 80th anniversary of the conclusion of the battle of Stalingrad. ‘We are again being threatened by German Leopard tanks.’

The Russian president is once again turning to an old staple he has often used to rally support in the absence of a genuine, unifying ideology: the great patriotic war, as the Russians call the eastern front in world war two.

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