All people are mortal, Russian President Vladimir Putin (70) said Friday at a meeting with the mothers of soldiers who died at the front. A person’s death is “inevitable,” Putin told a woman mourning her son who died in the 2019 Ukrainian partisan war.
“We are all mortals, we are all under the lord and one day we will all leave this world,” Putin told the BBC and Rossiyskaya Gazeta. ‘It’s inevitable. The question is how we lived.” Some people live or don’t live, according to Putin. Many die “from vodka or something else”.
goal achieved in death
Putin resorted to statistics. Every year in Russia 30,000 people die in road accidents, about the same number from alcohol. Her son, he told the grieving woman again, “lived or did not live” – and “survived” until he could “achieve his goal”: an honorable death for the fatherland. “That means he didn’t die in vain,” Putin said. The fallen are “heroes”.
It soon turned out that the Russian Mother’s Day gathering in Novo-Ogaryovo, Putin’s official residence near Moscow, was purely a propaganda show by the Kremlin. The 17 grieving model mothers belong to patriotic and pro-government organizations. (kes)
Source: Blick
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