“Do you realise what you’ve done?” President Putin addresses UNGA 2015 (FULL SPEECH). Video. RT, Septmenber 28, 2015. YouTube. Also at PBS News Hour, Real Clear Politics. Transcript. Transcript.
Transcript Excerpt:
RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN: We are all different and we should respect that. Now one has to conform to a single development model that someone has recognised as the only right one. We should all remember what our past has taught us.
We also
remember certain episodes from the history of the Soviet Union, social
experiments for export, attempts to push for changes with other countries based
on ideological preferences, which often lead to tragic consequences. And to
degradation rather than progress.
It
seems that far from learning from the mistakes of others, everyone keeps
repeating them. And so the export of revolutions, this time of so-called
democratic ones, continues. It was enough to look at the situation in the
Middle East and North Africa, as was mentioned by a previous speaker. Certainly
political and social problems in this region have been piling up for a long
time and people there wish for changes, naturally.
But how
did it actually turn out?
Rather
than bringing about reforms and addressing foreign interference, it resulted in
a brazen destruction of national institutions and lifestyles.
Instead
of the triumph of democracy and progress, we got violence, poverty and social
division.
And
nobody cares about about human rights, including the rights to life.
To the
people that have caused this commotion, do you realise what you have done?
But I
am afraid that no-one will answer that.
Policies based on the belief of self-exceptionism have never been abandoned. It is now obvious that the power vacuum created in some countries in the Middle East and North Africa, and the emergence of violent areas that were immediately filled with extremists and terrorists...
Policies based on the belief of self-exceptionism have never been abandoned. It is now obvious that the power vacuum created in some countries in the Middle East and North Africa, and the emergence of violent areas that were immediately filled with extremists and terrorists...
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