Arnold Schwarzenegger Tells Putin To ‘Stop This War’ In Latest Post

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Arnold
Schwarzenegger
told
Russians
in
a
video
posted
on
social
media
Thursday
they’re
being
lied
to
about
the
war
in
Ukraine
and
accused
President
Vladimir
Putin
of
sacrificing
Russian
soldiers’
lives
for
his
own
ambitions.

Schwarzenegger
is
hugely
popular
in
Russia,
and
apparently
also
with
Putin.
The
President
of
Russia
Twitter
account
follows
only
22
accounts
one
of
them
the
actor’s.

In
the
nine-minute
video,
Schwarzenegger
said
Russian
soldiers
were
told
they’d
be
fighting
Nazis
in
Ukraine,
or
to
protect
ethnic
Russians
in
Ukraine
or
that
were
going
on
military
exercises,
and
that
they’d
be
greeted
like
heroes.
He
said
many
of
the
troops
now
know
those
claims
were
false.

This
is
an
illegal
war,
Schwarzenegger
said,
looking
straight
into
the
camera
while
seated
at
a
desk
in
a
study.
Your
lives,
your
limbs,
your
futures
are
being
sacrificed
for
a
senseless
war
condemned
by
the
entire
world.

Schwarzenegger
posted
his
emotional
video
on
Twitter,
YouTube
and
Instagram.

I
love
the
Russian
people.
That
is
why
I
have
to
tell
you
the
truth.
Please
watch
and
share.

pic.twitter.com/6gyVRhgpFV
—
Arnold
(@Schwarzenegger)

March
17,
2022

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While
some
of
those
services
are
blocked
in
Russia,
he
also
posted
it
on
the
Telegram
messaging
app
which
is
not
where
it
got
more
than
a
half-million
views.
It
was
subtitled
in
Russian.

The
former
California
governor
brought
up
painful
memories
about
how
his
own
father
was
lied
to
as
he
fought
with
Adolf
Hitler’s
forces
during
World
War
II,
and
how
he
returned
to
Austria
a
broken
man,
physically
and
emotionally
after
being
wounded
at
Leningrad.

He
asked
Russians
to
let
their
fellow
citizens
know
about
the
human
catastrophe
that
is
happening
in
Ukraine.
The
video
showed
bombed
out
buildings
in
Ukraine
and
people
coming
under
Russian
shelling.

He
then
addressed
Putin
directly,
saying:
You
started
this
war.
You
are
leading
this
war.
You
can
stop
this
war.

Schwarzenegger
described
his
long
ties
to
Russia,
having
traveled
there
as
a
body
builder
and
film
action
hero.
In
2010,
as
California
governor,
he
led
a
delegation
of
Silicon
Valley
business
leaders
and
venture
capitalists
on
a
trip
to
Moscow.

He
called
all
the
Russians
who
have
been
in
the
streets
protesting
the
invasion
of
Ukraine,
and
who
have
been
arrested
and
manhandled,
my
new
heroes.

Acclaimed
Filmmaker
And
War
Journalist
Brent
Renaud
Shot
Dead
In
Ukraine

An
adviser
to
the
Ukrainian
Interior
Ministry
who
works
to
disseminate
information
about
the
course
of
the
war
urged
Ukrainians
to
share
the
video
with
friends
and
relatives
in
Russia.

Putin
and
his
propagandists
call
us
Ukrainians
fascists
and
Nazis,
the
adviser,
Anton
Gerashchenko,
said
on
Telegram.
But
their
propaganda
is
blown
to
smithereens
when
super
famous
people
all
over
the
world
speak
with
one
voice:
No
to
war!’

Gerashchenko
has
more
than
385,000
subscribers
to
his
channel
on
Telegram.
He
included
a
link
to
a
version
of
Schwarzenegger’s
video
with
a
Russian
voice-over
that
he
posted
on
his
YouTube
channel.