Speaking to reporters in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin used a non-existent quote from former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright about Siberia. Writes about this The New York Times.
Previously, the publication has already pointed out this deliberate or not Putin’s mistake – he first used this quote in 2014.
Today, at a meeting of the Victory organizing committee, Putin spoke about an allegedly long-standing conspiracy of Western states against Russia. He cited various, in his opinion, evidence of this, among which was Albright’s fake quote.
“And someone even dares publicly to say that it is unfair that Russia owns the wealth of a region like Siberia to only one country,” Putin said.
After voicing the fake, Putin threatened to “knock out teeth” to everyone who is trying to “bite off something” from Russia.
Many media outlets wrote about this fake quote, Albright herself has repeatedly stated that she did not say anything like this, but this did not prevent Putin from repeating the fiction.
NYT cites a number of examples when not only Russian journalists, but also high-ranking officials (for example, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Rogozin) relayed this fake.
The publication writes that the former correspondent of the Moscow Times, Anna Smolchenko, conducted an investigation and found out that for the first time this quote appeared in 2006 in an interview with the general of the Federal Security Service Boris Ratnikov, who said that the secret department of the FSO, which was engaged in occult practices, had read Madeleine Albright’s thoughts in 1999 year.
“A couple of weeks before the start of the bombing of Yugoslavia by US aircraft, we held a session to connect to the subconscious of Secretary of State Albright. I will not retell her thoughts in detail. I will only note the most characteristic moments that were confirmed after the start of the NATO aggression in Serbia,” the Russian general said at the time.
Journalist Dmitry Kozelev writes that the first mention of this quote appeared in the messages of anonymous accounts “somewhere in the depths of the German Russian-speaking Internet.” Then, according to Kozelev, in 2005 it was reproduced in an interview by director Nikita Mikhalkov.
“And now 2021 is again Madeleine Albright’s invented phrase in the president’s speech as an excuse to shake his fists to the delight of a patriotic voter. Of course, no one will dare to tell Putin that he is running around with a fake 15 years ago,” Kozelev wrote.
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