Leaked MAP: Putin wants to reconquer Hungary, Alaska, Poland?

Dmitry Medvedev, former Russian president between 2008 and 2012,  and deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, shared a map last July, showing the partition of Ukraine between Hungary, Romania, Poland and Russia. Now, the map has been updated with all the ex-Soviet countries and territories being recaptured by Russia. The shocking chart depicts Hungary, Poland and Alaska as part of the Russian empire. It seems their audicity knows no boundaries. 

The map appeared in Tambov, a city of 300,000 people, situated 480 km south of Moscow. Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent of The Wall Street Journal, Yaroslav Trofimov, shared the controversial map on his X (former Twitter) page. The post has more than 51 thousand views. Many people took to social media to give voice to their shock and outrage.

Russia’s aspirational map, from Alaska to Germany to Greece to Mongolia, now graces the streets of Tambov. “We’ll teach you to love the Fatherland,” it says. In case you thought it’s only about Ukraine. 📸 https://t.co/eM6GKmLZWj pic.twitter.com/UKvUTUPRXR

— Yaroslav Trofimov (@yarotrof) August 17, 2023

The said map even comes with the inscription: “We’ll teach you to love the Fatherland”. And the Russian world spans from Alaska to Germany and from Greece to Mongolia. The map clearly suggests that Moscow would not stop in Ukraine but might try to recapture Hungary as well. Hungary was occupied by the Soviet forces during WWII, after bloody fights between September 1944 and April 1945. The result was the almost complete destruction of Budapest and many parts of the country. Furthermore, Hungary became part of the Soviet block during the Cold War despite its failed 1956 revolution and freedom fight against Soviet (Russian) occupation.

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Greece, Alaska, Mongolia, Germany, Hungary – all belong to Russia & Putin?

The post-1945 world order’s main rule was that borders were unchangeable. The international community accepts only divisions (like in Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia in our region), but never military occupations. According to G7, Putin would change that and make the United Nations acknowledge its territorial gains in Ukraine. However, such a step might encourage other countries (like North Korea or African states) that military offensives are worth the price since there is a chance the international community will accept the results.

Of course, it is highly unlikely that Russia would seriously consider recapturing Alaska, a state of the United States once sold by the Russians to Washington. However, the threat in Central Europe may be plausible. That is what Poles always use as their main argument when lobbying for more support for Ukraine. Nevertheless, even Western politicians and the chief of staff of the NATO general secretary suggested Ukraine should accept territorial losses in return for security guarantees and NATO membership. Though the latter withdrew his proposition due to Kyiv’s outrage, G7 suggests Ukraine’s slow-pace advance on the battlefield may support such thoughts.

PM Orbán also expressed his opinion on the matter. He believes Washington should initiate peace or at least armistice negotiations with Moscow and end the bloodshed by restoring trade with Russia, even if that means a frozen conflict like the one in Eastern Ukraine having taken place between 2014 and 2022.