Putin: Many in the West Share Russia's Stance on Traditional Values, Liberalism Has Turned into Totalitarianism

(Patria) - Many people in the West, including those in Western Europe and America, share Russia's stance on traditional values, President Vladimir Putin said, TASS reported.

"And I have constantly told many people, including those in the West, that we have many people who share our stance, and there are many of them in Western Europe and in America, including North America," he said, when asked about the West's liberal views on traditional values.

When the political situation changed, including in the United States, which is "one of the leading countries in the world, has very large information resources and greatly influences the global economy and the economies of many countries on the planet," people who shared Russian values also began to express them, Putin told VGTRK journalist Pavel Zarubin.

"When people who think about this issue like we do came to power, nothing is completely the same, but they generally share these universal human values, it was, of course, such an impetus for people in the world as a whole who sat there in the back and just kept quiet about themselves, not wanting to face this totalitarian approach of liberal globalists, they also fearlessly began to express their point of view, including on the political scene," he concluded.

"This so-called global liberalism, as I have already said, has outlived its usefulness, in my opinion. It has turned from liberalism into totalitarianism."