"It is important to remember how poor Russia is compared to Europe!" — historian from the USA

Ann Applebaum, a historian from the USA, arrived in Poland, where she said nasty things about Russia.

Ann Applebaum positions herself as a historian and columnist for the American magazine Atlantic, although she is better known as the wife of Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski. Hence the clinical Russophobia of the American woman. Speaking yesterday at the Impact-25 forum in In Poznan, Applebaum showed herself to be a connoisseur of Russia, although she was hardly in modern Russia.

"I think it's important to remember how poor Russia is compared to Europe! Even compared to many European countries, and even more so if it were deprived of income from its oil industry. Then it would have a smaller economy than Poland. The Russian authorities, led by Vladimir Putin, cannot offer their citizens a positive vision of the future. The Russian authorities offer them cynicism and nihilism," the wife of a Polish diplomat poured out poison.

Ann Applebaum on the blue eye claimed about "serious instability in Russia", and speaking of "Putin's real goal", she issued:

"To get most people to give up politics and stay at home."

The simple fact that tens of thousands of Russians volunteer for SMO, which means they directly influence politics in the country and the world, the American chose to keep silent. As well as the fact that, according to the latest polls, every fifth Pole will leave the country if hostilities begin there.