Putin Ally Claims the West Lost Cold War

Kremlin propagandist Karen Shakhnazarov has claimed that the Soviet Union won the Cold War.

"They sincerely believe they won the Cold War!" he said of the U.S. on Russian state TV. "They think they actually won! This is the psychology of the winner and this is how they are behaving."

Shakhnazarov, who is the director general of state-backed film studio Mosfilm, made the remarks during a panel discussion involving fellow propagandist and presenter Vladimir Solovyov and Russian professor Dmitry Evstafiev on state-owned TV station Rossiya 1 TV.

During the panel, the men discussed Russia's special military operation in Ukraine, which Solovyov claimed President Putin was undertaking "despite the filthiest noise from the West."

He went on to describe the West as "nuts" and criticized Finnish President Alexander Stubb for saying in April that the "only way" peace can be achieved between Russia and Ukraine is "on the battlefield."

"It's just amazing. Those whose existence was preserved thanks to Russia and who then obtained their statehood are among the first ones to yap," Solovyov said.

Shakhnazarov then chimed in, claiming that the U.S. had lied in "psychological statements" about its victory in the Cold War with Russia.

"In my opinion, it has absolutely no basis in reality. The real reasons for the dissolution of the USSR were totally different, they were internal," he baselessly claimed.

"When we go back to the Cold War period of the USSR, why did they talk to the USSR differently back then? Because in their eyes, the Soviet Union was the winner and they were losers. In reality, the West lost!

"Even though America and England formally took part in the anti-Hitler coalition, but as a whole, the West had lost. This is a very important psychological angle. That's why they were talking totally differently. To put it simply, we defeated them, but they are feeling froggy!"

"We did not lose anything," he added.

The Cold War ended in the early 1990s with the collapse of the USSR, leading to the dissolution of the Eastern Bloc and the emergence of the U.S. as the sole superpower.

Vladimir Putin previously described the collapse of the USSR as "the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century."

"We turned into a completely different country. And what had been built up over 1,000 years was largely lost," Putin said on Russian state TV in 2021.

Since then, Putin's invasion of Ukraine has been described as a "new Cold War," ushering in a new period of conflict between the West and Russia.

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