This will make it “more peaceful”: AfD politician Tillschneider praises the dismemberment of Ukraine in Russian newspaper | The member of parliament from Saxony-Anhalt has a regular column in the Moscow newspaper “Vedomosti”. There he predicts the West’s decline – and Russia’s bright prospects.

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1. >The state parliament of Saxony-Anhalt is not enough for him: pro-Putin AfD politician Hans-Thomas Tillschneider from Saxony-Anhalt is now also spreading his anti-US and anti-NATO views in Russia. He has been writing guest articles for the Moscow daily newspaper “Vedomosti” since January 2023, as he confirmed to MZ.
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   >He usually delivers an opinion piece in German every month, with the editorial team taking care of the translation. He does not receive payment from Russia, said Tillschneider. “I write the articles free of charge and have never received a penny for them.”
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   >In his texts, the politician supports the Kremlin’s course. In his December column, for example, he flattered that Russia was “more independent and therefore stronger than ever before” despite the sanctions. Tillschneider compared the balance sheet of the Ukrainian armed forces with the failed offensive of SS General Felix Steiner near Berlin in 1945.
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   >Tillschneider expressly praised the annexation of Ukrainian territories. Ukraine will be “more peaceful” in 2024 than in 2023, he predicted in the text published on Boxing Day. “Russia will quietly, systematically and piece by piece take over territories that it considers its property. The pro-Western government of Ukraine and the West itself will have to accept this, whether they like it or not.” The international community will then “rightly” see this as a success for Russia and a defeat for the USA, according to Tillschneider.
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   >In the fall of 2022, the politician, who was born in Banat (Romania), traveled to Russia together with his parliamentary group colleague Daniel Wald in order to enter Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine from there. Following an intervention by the AfD federal leadership, both had to abandon the trip.
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   >This action brought him to the attention of “Vedomosti”, which asked if he could provide opinion pieces for a fee, said Tillschneider. He waived the money. “The opportunity to present my political ideas to the Russian public via a renowned daily newspaper is reward enough for me.”
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   >With his texts, he wants to show the Russian audience “that there are still German politicians who think differently to the official representatives from the ranks of the old parties and, for example, condemn NATO’s aggressive expansionism or the EU’s interference in Ukraine,” said Tillschneider.
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   >In Russia, all media are under state control. According to the Federal Foreign Office, freedom of the press is “extremely restricted”. The newspaper “Vedomosti” specializes in financial and economic issues; until its forced closure in 2015, it was co-owned by the US paper “Wall Street Journal” and the British “Financial Times”. “This is not a crude propaganda medium. The newspaper certainly tries to maintain its seriousness,” says a Russia expert. “But of course all newspapers in Russia are given their guidelines.”
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   >Tillschneider admits that criticism of President Vladimir Putin is not possible in the Russian media. “However, freedom of the press in Russia is no better or worse than it is here,” he claims. His evidence: If, for example, a journalist in Germany were to write the sentence “Everything for Germany”, he would be taken to court. The phrase is the slogan of the Sturmabteilung (SA), Hitler’s party militia.

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2. Fuck this Tillschneider dickhead.

3. Why is he not in prison

4. Then he should fuck off to Russia to live in Russia’s “bright prospects”

5. Any Germans here who can talk about the local politics.

   Like the “pro Russias” in US congress. Say meh we should make Europe pay for it. But dam this guy is trashing his country. Moscow Marg is always in an American flag.

6. Nazis of a feather flock together.