Damning):
"Ничего подобного, кстати, не было при заключении Люблинской унии."
Translation: "By the way, nothing like this occurred during the conclusion of the #Lublin Union."
Context & Contrast: Putin uses this phrase to praise the 1654 reunion of Ukrainian lands with Moscow, contrasting it favorably with Polish-Western subjugation. Yet he is now demonstrating that what he condemned in the Polish occupation—the desecration of Orthodox heritage—he himself is executing with drones @meduza_en
... Show more...Damning):
"Ничего подобного, кстати, не было при заключении Люблинской унии."
Translation: "By the way, nothing like this occurred during the conclusion of the #Lublin Union."
Context & Contrast: Putin uses this phrase to praise the 1654 reunion of Ukrainian lands with Moscow, contrasting it favorably with Polish-Western subjugation. Yet he is now demonstrating that what he condemned in the Polish occupation—the desecration of Orthodox heritage—he himself is executing with drones @meduza_en
