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<blockquote data-quote="Box Ox" data-source="post: 5291608" data-attributes="member: 48469">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna32909[/URL]“<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/world/russia-ukraine-news" target="_blank">President Vladimir Putin</a> has compared himself to Peter the Great, saying he shares the the 18th-century tsar&#039;s goal of returning &quot;Russian lands&quot; to a greater empire.Speaking after visiting an exhibition to celebrate the 350th anniversary of Peter&#039;s birth on Thursday, Putin drew a parallel to his own invasion of Ukraine.&quot;Peter the Great waged the Great Northern War for 21 years. It would seem that he was at war with Sweden, he took something from them,&quot; he said, according to a translation from Reuters. &quot;He did not take anything from them, he returned [them].&quot;Referring to the Ukraine invasion he said: &quot;Apparently, it also fell to us to return [what is Russia’s] and strengthen [the country].”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Box Ox, post: 5291608, member: 48469"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna32909[/URL] “[URL='https://www.nbcnews.com/world/russia-ukraine-news']President Vladimir Putin[/URL] has compared himself to Peter the Great, saying he shares the the 18th-century tsar's goal of returning "Russian lands" to a greater empire. Speaking after visiting an exhibition to celebrate the 350th anniversary of Peter's birth on Thursday, Putin drew a parallel to his own invasion of Ukraine. "Peter the Great waged the Great Northern War for 21 years. It would seem that he was at war with Sweden, he took something from them," he said, according to a translation from Reuters. "He did not take anything from them, he returned [them]." Referring to the Ukraine invasion he said: "Apparently, it also fell to us to return [what is Russia’s] and strengthen [the country].” [/QUOTE]

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