{"id":1354415,"date":"2022-03-02T08:05:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T13:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1354415"},"modified":"2022-03-02T08:09:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T13:09:00","slug":"lithuanian-lawmaker-putin-wants-to-reconstitute-soviet-unions-empire-of-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lithuanian-lawmaker-putin-wants-to-reconstitute-soviet-unions-empire-of-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Lithuanian Lawmaker: Putin Wants to Reconstitute Soviet Union\u2019s Empire of Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flithuanian-lawmaker-putin-wants-to-reconstitute-soviet-unions-empire-of-fear%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1354415&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1236410767-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Vladimir Putin wants to re-create the \u201cempire of fear\u201d of the Soviet Union in which he is at the top of the \u201cpower pyramid\u201d, a Lithuanian MP has told Breitbart News.<\/p>\n<p>Lithuanian MP Dovil\u0117 \u0160akalien\u0117, whose country shares a land border with the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad (K\u00f6nigsberg \/ Kr\u00f3lewiec), said that Russian strongman Vladimir Putin has been corrupted by years of \u201cuncontested power\u201d and that he was \u201ctraumatised\u201d into sociopathy under the communist Soviet Union.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAs a child, I lived in the Soviet Union, and still remember the propaganda that the USSR was supposedly \u2018the strongest and the biggest and the best country in the world\u2019. My family suffered from communists so much \u2013 deported to Siberia, imprisoned, tortured, simply for not accepting the Russian occupation,\u201d \u0160akalien\u0117 told Breitbart London.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s how \u2018the best country\u2019 was treating its own people, who didn\u2019t want to be a part of that gigantic prison-state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Lithuanian lawmaker said that Putin \u201cthrived in that Soviet atmosphere of fear and omnipotence, and of course, he wants it back,\u201d explaining that Putin served in the KGB while touting his grandfather\u2019s connections to the \u201cbloodiest elite of red terror\u201d including as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-russia-putin-family-idUSKCN1GN0OR\">serving as a cook for both Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cEspecially that now he is at the top of the power pyramid, his dream is to re-create the empire of fear and expand influence in order to revive a two-axis world, with the U.S. and Novorossiya (New Russia) as the great rivals.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Lithuanian MP Dovil\u0117 \u0160akalien\u0117 told Breitbart London that her country \u201cdoes not respond well to threats\u2026 we\u2019ve been used to threats for more than half a century (under Soviet Rule).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are small but we are tough,&#8221; she said.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Db5W0tlliV\">https:\/\/t.co\/Db5W0tlliV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1426176713537458180?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 13, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Prior to the Russian invasion, \u0160akalien\u0117 was perhaps best known for her struggle against another authoritarian regime, Communist China. In March of last year, she was personally sanctioned by Beijing for crafting legislation condemning the \u201cgenocide\u201d being committed in Xinjiang against the Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities.<\/p>\n<p>Her country has been in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/01\/22\/german-companies-are-bending-to-beijings-will-says-lithuanian-mp\/\">protracted conflict<\/a> with China after opening a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/07\/22\/exclusive-we-will-not-be-intimidated-by-china-says-lithuanian-mp\/\">de facto Taiwanese embassy<\/a> in Vilnius last summer. In response to the threats, including of war, from the CCP, the Lithuanian MP previously told Breitbart London \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/07\/22\/exclusive-we-will-not-be-intimidated-by-china-says-lithuanian-mp\/\">we are small but we are tough<\/a>\u201c.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of Russia, she said that she believes the \u201conly hope\u201d of confronting the \u201csadistic dictator\u201d will be to make the economic impacts against the \u201cpolitical-oligarch elite\u201d surrounding Putin \u201cinsufferable\u201d so that they reject his expansionist campaign in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cFreezing Nord Stream 2 was a good step\u2026 but too late. It will also be necessary to disconnect Europe from Russian gas, these measures shall hit us all as well, the only question is if we realise the cost of our indecisiveness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For the Lithuanian MP, the invasion of Ukraine by Russia has raised the concern that Putin will try to expand his campaign and reclaim her homeland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLithuania has found itself between two Russian territories \u2013 Kaliningrad, which is jammed with nukes, and Belarus, the new colony of Russia,\u201d \u0160akalien\u0117 said, noting that Putin-ally Alexander Lukashenko has provided the Russian military the use of Belarussian land and air space to launch the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>She said that the\u00a0\u201cBelarussian army is fully integrated with the Russian army, so we are witnessing the de facto absorption of Belarus.\u201d Confirming\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/28\/belarus-troops-ukraine-russia-invasion\">earlier predictions<\/a> by US officials, Belarussian soldiers have now<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/belarus-russia-war-ukraine\/\"> joined the invasion<\/a>, entering Ukraine from the north.<\/p>\n<p>In light of the perceived growing threat against Lithuania, a NATO member state, the lawmaker said that she and her Social Democrat Party have broken with their conventions and supported the government initiative to increase military spending as well as advocating for a bilateral agreement to ship weapons and other military equipment to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring extraordinary times extraordinary measures must be employed, and stopping the war, protecting your homeland are the game-changers,\u201d\u00a0\u0160akalien\u0117 said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A leading Lithuanian MP believes in exchange for supporting Russia&#8217;s attempts to gain control of Ukraine, Russia will ship Ukrainian wheat to China, which has been facing food shortages. Ukraine has a tragic history of Russia pillaging its food resources. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DtM8kyg8d9\">https:\/\/t.co\/DtM8kyg8d9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1497881695743143936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vladimir Putin wants to re-create the \u201cempire of fear\u201d of the Soviet Union in which he is at the top of the \u201cpower pyramid\u201d, a Lithuanian MP has told Breitbart<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}