Chechen leader Kadyrov threatens to invade ‘East Germany’
The President of the Russian Republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, suggested, in state television, that the Russian army should invade “East Germany”: a territory of the former GDR (German Democratic Republic).
“We have to return, it is our territory,” Kadyrov said, alluding to the Soviet occupation after World War II and the subsequent creation of East Germany under the socialist orbit.
Furthermore, he threatened German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. “Scholz should be punched in the face,” Kadyrov said. The reason for the verbal attack could be the deliveries of main battle tanks to Ukraine announced by Germany.
Kadyrov exposed to the Russian public the old expansionist dream of returning to the times of the Soviet Union, with half of Europe under the Warsaw Pact and the German Democratic Republic at Moscow’s command.
When Germany announced that it was clearing the way for tank shipments to Ukraine, Putin also wanted to convey a perhaps less threatening but disturbing message: He noted that it was the first time since World War II that German tanks would fire on Russian soldiers.
Kadyrov, in his rude, defiant and aggressive language (even by the standards of Russian propaganda) implied that Germany had to be put in its place in order for it to understand the true hierarchy of the world’s nations.
Nothing stops Kadyrov. Neither the possibility of nuclear war nor the force of NATO: “We will defeat and destroy them.”
He also stressed that it would be wrong to negotiate with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “We are showing results that the West, the NATO countries and the EU cannot even dream of,” said Kadyrov. And he promised his followers: “We will break through and conquer Poland.”
In October 2022, after the defeat at Lyman (in Donetsk Oblast), Kadyrov called on Putin to use nuclear weapons in the Ukrainian war, as reported by Reuters.
