Russian representative denounces falsehoods about Lenin in EU report

Moscow, Jan 10 (Prensa Latina) The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, today denounced a false quote from Vladimir Lenin in the official report of the European Union (EU), published by the former president of Finland, Sauli Niinistö.

January 10, 2025
10:20

On her Telegram channel, Zajárova indicated that, in the preface of this work, in the best tradition of the classics of dialectical materialism, Niinistö quoted Vladimir Lenin with the words ¨Probe the ground with bayonets: if you prick the mud, go ahead; if you find steel, stop.¨

According to the official Kremlin representative, this quote turned out to be false, which is not uncommon in EU reports. The diplomat pointed out that Lenin never uttered or wrote that phrase.

According to Zakharova, the former Finnish president often resorts to forgeries, alluding that if the Internet in Helsinki is completely out of service due to problems with submarine cables, she is ready to send a link to the Finnish embassy in Moscow.

In addition, she was interested in the purpose for which Niinisto disturbs the spirit of Vladimir Ilich Lenin.

If it is out of gratitude to the chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of Soviet Russia for the independence granted to Finland at the end of 1917, then the question arises why Helsinki is so calm about the dismantling of monuments to the leader, she argued.

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