J.K. Rowling answered Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday for his linking her cancellation for anti-transgender comments with Russia’s sanctions.
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Red Heat).I love the Russian people. That is why I have to tell you the truth. Please watch and share.
pic.twitter.com/6gyVRhgpFV— Arnold (@Schwarzenegger) March 17, 2022He used this context to prove that he wasn’t ignorant of or prejudiced against Russia, but that he knows that many Russians are unaware about the truth of the war and are being fed dangerous propaganda to justify the situation.Russian media, for instance, is barred from using the words “invasion” and “assault” in reports. The term “special military operation” is being used to cover up the war it’s waged.Schwarzenegger also spoke about his father Gustav, who was a Nazi Brownshirt in WWII.Gustav later regretted serving the Nazis and was a “broken” man by the time the war ended, Arnold said. “He was all pumped up on the lies of his government,” the actor added, “and when he left Leningrad he was broken, physically and mentally.”“I don’t want you to be broken like my father,” Arnold added.To Russian soldiers serving in Ukraine, Schwarzenegger said: “You are being sacrificed for a senseless war….
let your fellow Russians know the human catastrophe that is happening in Ukraine.“And to President Putin I say: you started this war. You are leading this war. You can stop this war.”Schwarzenegger rounded off his video with a message to the people in Russia who are protesting the war.
“The world has seen your bravery,” he said. “We know that you have suffered the consequences of your courage. You have been arrested.
You have been jailed. And you have been beaten. You are my new heroes.“You have the strength of Yuri Petrovich Vlasov.
J.K. Rowling answered Russian President Vladimir Putin Friday for his linking her cancellation for anti-transgender comments with Russia’s sanctions.
Arnold Schwarzenegger shared a 9-minute video on his social media feeds. In it, he talks about the war in Ukraine, addressing the Russian people and his fond experience with Russia.A first print VHS tape of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ‘The Terminator’ was sold for $32,500Arnold Schwarzenegger introduces adorable new family memberA post shared by Arnold Schwarzenegger (@schwarzenegger)The video starts with Schwarzenegger sharing the story of his biggest hero, Yury Petrovich Vlasov, a Russian heavyweight weight lifter who was Schwarzenegger’s hero for many years. They met at the World Weightlifting Championship in 1961, a moment that impacted Schwarzenegger’s future and choice in career.
Vladimir Putin appeared to disappear mid-sentence while delivering a speech at a pro-war rally.
Film icon Arnold Schwarzenegger told Russians in a video posted on social media Thursday they're being lied to about the war in Ukraine and accused President Vladimir Putin of sacrificing Russian soldiers' lives for his own ambitions.Schwarzenegger is hugely popular in Russia, and apparently also with Putin. The President of Russia Twitter account follows only 22 accounts — one of them the actor's.In the nine-minute video, Schwarzenegger said Russian soldiers were told they’d be fighting Nazis in Ukraine, or to protect ethnic Russians in Ukraine or that were going on military exercises, and that they’d be greeted like heroes.
Sasha Urban editorArnold Schwarzenegger released a nine-minute video Thursday addressed to the people of Russia, urging the government to end the war in Ukraine and denouncing state propaganda.“I know that your government has told you this is a war to denazify Ukraine,” the actor and former California governor said. “Denazify Ukraine? This is not true. Ukraine is a country with a Jewish president.
An Arnold Schwarzenegger video message to the Russian people already has garnered more than 4.3 million views on Twitter, as the former California governor says that he is telling them the truth about Vladimir Putin’s “illegal war.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger is sending a direct message to Vladimir Putin and the people of Russia.
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