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Finland is once again receiving harsh threats on Russian state television.
Vladimir Solovyov, a TV journalist who is one of Vladimir Putin's chief propagandists, warned that the Finnish and Swedish armies would be no match for North Korean soldiers.
- Finland, which we forgave in vain, can your army be compared to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Solovyov said on the Rossiya 1 channel.
Finland would be no match for Russia and its allies in a war, Solovyov said. The Russian administration has accused Europe and the Nordic countries of warmongering and aggression against Russia.
- We will see how the situation develops. We will watch very closely, Solovyov warned.
If war breaks out, according to Solovyov, it would not be the first time that Russia would be able to "march through Europe".
- Every generation is granted that joy, Solovyov quipped.
North Korea is an important ally of Russia. North Korean soldiers have fought alongside Russia in Ukraine.
– Attention, Finland and Sweden! Russian propagandist Solovyov threatened you with North Korean troops, writes Anton Herashchenko, an advisor to the Ukrainian Interior Minister, who shared a clip of Solovyov's performance that he subtitled.
The program "Evening with Vladimir Solovyov" has previously fantasized about war, the violent expansion of the Russian empire, and the occupation of Finland.
– Helsinki will become Russian, Solovyov grinned last year.
In his broadcasts, Solovyov has indulged in the idea of other propagandists that Russia would take over Finland and other "territories belonging to it".
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– Like California, Hawaii, Alaska, Finland and the Baltic countries. All of them are ours, Solovyov said in April 2024.
Russia 1 is a fully state-owned Russian TV channel and one of the most watched in the country. Solovyov has been running his own program on the channel since 2012.
Solovyov's imperialist statements also reflect the Kremlin's views.
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I'm not kidding when I say how incomprehensible it is that the European Union is openly reviving the ideology of European Nazism, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
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Of course, we will not tolerate this, but we will do everything we can to keep this ideology out, to eliminate it once and for all, and to return Europe to its true values.
There is an ongoing campaign in the Russian media to smear Finland, Jussi Lassila, a researcher at the Institute for Foreign Policy, previously estimated for Iltalehti.
The above is a Google Translation of this Iltalehti article