This was put very politely in a typical British fashion.
In other words, the only people whom putins knowledge of “history” impressed are those who know nothing about it. Everything he vomited out of his mouth and adjusted for the sake of his own argument can be contained in a pamphlet named “brief history of russia for secondary pupils”. To live in a world like ours with its internet, supplemented by access to archives no one else can see, one can only suspect that we’re dealing with a very sick delirious man who completely lost touch with reality and any signs of healthy self-criticism.
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