Russian President Vladimir Putin made a speech Saturday condemning the mutiny by the Wagner group, comparing the uprising to the events sparked by Russia’s 1917 revolution.
Putin claimed that the Russians were stabbed “in the back” by nameless enemies towards the end of World War I, which he said is why the Russians lost that war and that in turn led to “a civil war” in Russia, Putin said.
The Russians were not stabbed in the back during World War I, as Putin suggested during his remarks on Saturday.
During the 1917 revolution, a Marxist party known as the Bolsheviks seized power.
A year later, Nicholas II and other members of the ruling Romanov family ended up on the wrong end of a firing squad.
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