Comments by "Greg Ruland" (@gregruland1934) on "Putin likens himself to Peter the Great" video.

  1. Odd - Peter the Great was the greatest Westernizer of Russia - he admired the achievements of Europe -
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  2.  @jarednovel  The all caps makes it especially true -
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  3.  @jarednovel  Entire books have been written on this topic - Peter the Great's proclivity for the West is well documented. Please see Dmytryshyn, Basil (1974). "Modernization of Russia Under Peter I and Catherine II." Wiley; Anisimov, Evgenii V. (2015) The Reforms of Peter the Great: Progress Through Violence in Russia (Routledge); Palmer, R.R.; Colton, Joel (1992). "A History of the Modern World."
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  4.  @maythefuhrerofunderstandin9624  That's funny. You must be Russian. I'm sorry. It is a great burden to carry these days. Czar Putin's war on Ukraine is the degenerate act of war criminals. Degenerate? You've got to be kidding me.
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