“In fact, Zelenskiy is far closer to
Lenin than to George Washington. He is a dictator. He is a dangerous
authoritarian who has used $100 billion in U.S. tax dollars to erect a
one-party police state in Ukraine.” Who wrote this?
It is the opinion posted on Twitter by Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the Russia Today TV network (since 2005) and the Sputnik news agency (since 2014). Her narrative did not come as a bolt from the blue but is linked to the slanders of those who fought against the October Revolution and saw in its leader “the devil, who broke up the great Tsarist Empire with Germany’s money”.
